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simplex munditiis Lat. phr.|ˈsɪmplɛks mʊnˈdɪtɪiːs|
[L., lit. ‘simple in your adornments’ (Horace Odes i. v. 5).]
Unostentatiously beautiful; elegantly simple. Also used substantively.
1766H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 274 Even the simplex Mundities [sic], that ornament of a clean simplicity, recommended by Horace, can operate only by intimation of deeper purity. 1803Edin. Rev. III. 8 Indeed, the simplex munditiis stamped every thing that he did. 1874A. J. Munby Diary 4 May (1972) 367 Wearing a rich silk dress.., and simplex munditiis as to her beautiful hair. 1933E. Blunden Charles Lamb 42 The same grace, the simplex munditiis, haunted all through his sonnets. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 84 To go far and come to an end Simplex munditiis, as the hair of Circe; perhaps without the munditiis. |