The new Disney ships feature almost Michelin-level fine dining, elegant on-board spa services, and adult-only tours, says Brown.

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Alongside the newer part of the city, stretching from the old fort past the fashionable Avenue Cartier and the elegant Museum of Fine Arts, are the Plains of Abraham.

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In fact, Santiago seems like a smaller Buenos Aires, with a European style embodied in structures such as the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts), housed within an elegant neoclassical building, and the Mercado Central (Central Market), with its filigreed steel framework imported from Britain.

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Baxter was small, fine-featured, red-headed, and elegant.

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The latter also operates one of the best restaurants in town, serving pisco sours and fine Peruvian dishes such as alpaca with elderberry sauce in a rustically elegant dining room.

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Although some of these elegant places still exist and still produce tremendous cuisine, Fine Dining now refers more to the main event: the food on the plate.

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It's all so soothing: UBS porters usher multimillionaire Brazilian farmers up the private elevator, the corporate head of communications is off on vacation, and an elite cadre of UBS trainees, flown in for a seminar, is getting whisked away from the elegant Hotel Steigenberger Bellerive au Lac for another night of fine dining.

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Milena had large blue eyes, an elegant nose, and olive skin covered with a graceful network of fine wrinkles.

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