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  • adverb In a chic or fashionable way

Etymologies

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chic +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • With its chicly restored rooms, it provides an excellent, central base for business travelers.

    Lyon Offers Business Travelers a Central Hub Javier Espinoza 2011

  • With my impending journey in mind, I bundled up chicly and warmly for the occasion as well as selected the appropriate catwalk playlist for my adventure.

    Malcolm Harris: Fashion Police or Racial Profiling? Malcolm Harris 2012

  • With my impending journey in mind, I bundled up chicly and warmly for the occasion as well as selected the appropriate catwalk playlist for my adventure.

    Malcolm Harris: Fashion Police or Racial Profiling? Malcolm Harris 2012

  • One trip to Mr. Regal's space at the chicly renovated Newel showroom on 53rd Street and I was ready to pretend to invest in Old World.

    Really Fine Prices for Fine Antiques Sara Ruffin Costello 2011

  • With my impending journey in mind, I bundled up chicly and warmly for the occasion as well as selected the appropriate catwalk playlist for my adventure.

    Malcolm Harris: Fashion Police or Racial Profiling? Malcolm Harris 2012

  • With my impending journey in mind, I bundled up chicly and warmly for the occasion as well as selected the appropriate catwalk playlist for my adventure.

    Malcolm Harris: Fashion Police or Racial Profiling? Malcolm Harris 2012

  • Unfortunately, inasmuch as the chicly decorated space held only half that number, Gilbert, as Stafford was universally famed had had to, as Jacobs termed it, 'shatter many clubbing dreams.'

    Michael Henry Adams: "Black Royalty"? 2010

  • Still, the ambiance was wonderful: comfortably bohemian, chicly shabby, unfussily inviting and many other jolly terms designed to defuse my wife's urges toward home improvement.

    Blessings of the Season Alfred Gingold 2010

  • Still, the ambiance was wonderful: comfortably bohemian, chicly shabby, unfussily inviting and many other jolly terms designed to defuse my wife's urges toward home improvement.

    Alfred Gingold: Blessings of the Season 2010

  • On Thursday, Michele Lee, Debra Monk, Katie Finneran, Tracee Ellis Ross, Casey Wilson, all chicly attired in black, ably juggled the script from an original book by Ilene Beckerman and ushered in a new batch of jokes, jabs, and cartoons of key clothes.

    Regina Weinreich: What I Wore to Love, Loss, and What I Wore 2010

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