elegance

1. (countable, dated) A refinement or luxury.Examples: "As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good."; "At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances."; "Phineas Duge[…] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit."countabledatedusually