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arbiter elegantiae
AR-buh-tur e-la-gan-SHEE-uh
noun
an accepted authority on social behavior and matters of taste
1896Henryk SienkiewiczQuo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of NeroThe women of Rome admired not only his pliant mind and his taste, which gained for him the title Arbiter Elegantiae, but also his body.1934E. E. Doc SmithTriplanetaryHe was therefore some little distance behind the other gladiators when Petronius rushed up to him and seized him by the arm. White and trembling, the noble was not now the exquisite Arbiter Elegantiae; nor the imperturbable Augustian.

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