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Blend of swell +‎ elegant

Adjective

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swellegant (comparative more swellegant, superlative most swellegant)

  1. (informal) Both swell and elegant.
    • 2007 June 10, David Colman, “Everything Isn’t Always Black and White”, in New York Times[1]:
      The childhood raised in various swellegant locales around the world: London, Rio, Paris, wherever his mother (nee Margherita Agnelli) and his father, Alain Elkann (and later his stepfather, Serge de Pahlen), wanted to be.