Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Courtesy; gentleness; kindness; elegance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
debonair .
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Examples
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I believe so, said I. Then Ill go to the Duke, by Heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.
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To Him thou art turned, when His grace illumines thine heart; and forsakes all vices, and conforms it to virtues and good manners, and to all manner of compliance and debonairness.
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I believe so, said I. - Then I'll go to the Duke, by heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.
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I believe so, said I. -- Then I'll go to the Duke, by heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.
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Cambridge, for his law to Gray's Inn: and for that which completed all, the government of himself, to court; where his debonairness and freedom took with the king, as his solidity and wisdom with the Cardinal. "[
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Then I’ll go to the Duke, by heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world. — — And there you are wrong again, replied I. —
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