graceful
/ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/ adjectif B1En français : gracieux
- Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion. · She is a graceful dancer.
- Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious. · The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
- Gradual and non-disruptive.
Dans la bibliothèque
Peppino, turning around, shouted, “A fowl for his excellency!” His voice yet echoed in the archway when a handsome, graceful, and half-naked young man appeared, bearing a fowl in a silver dish on his head, without the assistance of his hands.
During the scene of tumult, Andrea had turned his smiling face towards the assembly; then, leaning with one hand on the oaken rail of the dock, in the most graceful attitude possible, he said:
To a Parisian accustomed to silken curtains, walls hung with velvet drapery, and the soft perfume of burning wood, the white smoke of which diffuses itself in graceful curves around the room, the appearance of the whitewashed cell which greeted his eyes on awakening seemed like the continuation of some disagreeable dream.
Renée regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
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