| 单词 | elegant arts |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselegant arts elegant arts n. (chiefly with the) those creative activities whose products are intended to be a source of aesthetic pleasure to people of refinement and cultivated taste (frequently opposed to useful arts n. at useful adj. and n. Compounds); cf. fine art n. 1a. ΚΠ ?1649 tr. H. Wotton Panegyrick King Charles 103 Italy (the greatest mother of elegant Arts [L. elegantium Artium]). 1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 21. 120 She has a fine Taste of the elegant Arts. 1796 Monthly Rev. Apr. 413 He disclaims the extravagant pretensions of too many of his countrymen to a knowlege not only of the useful but the elegant arts. 1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing i. 1 A high state of the elegant arts..is indicative of great advancement in civilization. 1915 J. T. Welsh Addresses 71 The elegant arts seldom, if ever, flourish when trade and commercial prosperity are stagnant. 2010 S. Lee in P. F. Williams Asian Literary Voices i. 24 Many were trained in the elegant arts. < as lemmas |
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