The building had to have been elegant once, designed in a vaguely Mediterranean motif.

Her once elegant face was twisted by a barely concealed scowl.

The once elegant bruiser is launching a brand of eau-de-Cologne, bearing his name.

This once elegant sanctuary, established in 1887, also narrowly escaped demolition.

He thought he could write Crowe a parody at once elegant and shocking.

There were some once elegant structures, now crumbling, that looked to have been a part of a larger place, just as Kahlan had said.

His clothing, once elegant, had been soiled and torn from incessant use.

Many of the city's once elegant Georgian neighbourhoods rapidly became slums.

A marble floor in the lobby must have been elegant once.

Oakley Road was a street of once elegant rowhouses, now derelict and boarded up.