Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Gentleness; courtesy; debonairness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Debonairness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The quality of being
debonair .
Etymologies
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Old French debonaireté, French débonnaireté.
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Examples
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It had been instituted so that "jolity, peace, courtesy, gentleness, debonairity, and love without end might be maintained, all good promoted, and evil prevented."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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