Mostly doubled as 翩翩 for graceful, light movement (a dancer, a butterfly) or, in 风度翩翩, for a refined, elegant manner. The single 翩 appears in literary words like 翩然 ('lightly, nimbly').
The feather radical on the right gives the meaning: the word is about wings beating, hence the sense of light, fluttering flight that later extended to graceful human movement.
