Crossword-Solution: ELEGANTS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Brave Winthrop, marching with the city elegants, seems to have been a little startled to find how wonderfully human were the hard-handed men of the Eighth Massachusetts.

Stock-riders and bull-punchers rubbed shoulders with elegants in skirted coats and shepherd's plaid trousers, who adroitly skipped heaps of stones and mortar, or crept along the narrow edging of kerb.

With gloomy grudge he gazed at those young elegants whom he met on the Boulevards in splendid toilet, on superb horses--at these incroyables who, in the first rays of the sun of peace, from the soil of the republic, yet moist with blood, had sprung up as so many mushrooms of divers colors and varied hues.

There they were, the two of them: two elegants in one sense: in the other sense, two units, absolutely adhering to the people, teeming with the distorted colliers.

What enhanced the bitterness of the attack was the difference between Moličre's natural style and the affected tone of the would-be elegants he brought upon the stage.