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arbiter elegantiae
[ ahr-bi-ter ey-le-gahn-tee-ahy; English ahr-bi-ter el-uh-gan-shee-ee ]
noun
Latin.
- a judge of elegance or matters of taste.
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In the '50s he astonished the fashion world with his magnificent costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi, and by the '60s he had fully established himself as a waspish, infallible arbiter elegantiae, the Petronius of Britain's comfortably padded decline.
White and trembling, the noble was not now the exquisite Arbiter Elegantiae; nor the imperturbable Augustian.
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