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iligant, a.|ˈɪlɪgənt| Also illigant. ¶ Used, chiefly as an Irishism, for elegant a. (sense ¶ 8).
1819M. Wilmot Let. 3 Sept. (1935) 16 An illigant black silk dress. 1822M. Edgeworth Let. 4 Mar. (1971) 361 We have an excellent job landau..and quite iligant coachman horses and all—for one pound per day. 1833Dickens Lett. (1965) I. 20, I..will not give you the trouble of deciphering any more of my iligant writing. 1846Punch XI. 79 A large assortment of most iligant blunderbuss's. 1888Cornhill Mag. Sep. 277 An' it looked an iligant counthry an' all in a glimmerin' green. 1898J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 21 It was agreed on all hands that he was ‘an illigant corpse, and as foine a bhoy as ever was stretched’. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 14 She found hersell sackvulle of..small illigant brogues, so rich in sweat. |