Moving or acting with smooth, elegant, and flowing movements that look beautiful.
From Latin 'gratia' meaning grace or favor, combined with Old French '-ful' and the adverbial '-ly.' The term originally meant to move with divine grace.
Ballet dancers move 'gracefully,' but the word 'grace' comes from Latin meaning 'favor'—so to move gracefully is to move like you're being favored or blessed by beauty itself!
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