rondeur

She met the alarmed parents with a good-humoured, easy grace for nobody matched her in, I know not whether to say the possession or the assumption of a certain “rondeur et franchise de bonne femme;” which on various occasions gained the point aimed at with instant and complete success, where severe gravity and serious reasoning would probably have failed.

Villette 2003

Africa especially, English phlegm, shyness, or pride, will bar every heart and raise every hand against you3, whereas what M. Rochet calls “a certain rondeur of manner” is a specific for winning affection.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Yes, there he lay stretched in all his _rondeur_, with the square-sail just in front of the feet of respectable Mrs. Knoph, who resembled a deserted tower in the desert.

Norse Tales and Sketches Alexander Lange Kielland 1877

She met the alarmed parents with a good-humoured, easy grace for nobody matched her in, I know not whether to say the possession or the assumption of a certain "rondeur et franchise de bonne femme;" which on various occasions gained the point aimed at with instant and complete success, where severe gravity and serious reasoning would probably have failed.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

This part he performs with much truth, and _avec rondeur_, as the critics here express it, to signify plain-dealing.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798