Plainness

There was a plainness and simplicity about her costume which bore with it a suggestion of limited means.

The simplicity of its republican origin had so far affected the external character and expression of the imperial office, that in the midst of luxury the most unbounded, and spite of all other corruptions, a majestic plainness of manners, deportment, and dress, had still continued from generation to generation, characteristic of the Roman imperator in his intercourse with his subjects.

Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence And here choose I. Joy be the consequence!

Yet her beauty clung to her like an identity she was trying to deny and her plainness kept slipping like a bad disguise.