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flair
English
Etymology
From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair (“scent, odour”), from flairier (“to reek, smell”), from Latin fl?gr?, dissimilated variation of fr?gr? (“emit a sweet smell”, verb). More at fragrant.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fl???/
- (US) enPR: flâr, IPA(key): /fl???/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: flare
Noun
flair (countable and uncountable, plural flairs)
- A natural or innate talent or aptitude.
- Synonyms: gift, knack, talent
- 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press (?ISBN), page 73:
- The cafard. The cockroach. The French certainly had a flair for labeling their unhappiness. Long ago he had begun to visualize this nagging misery as the insect the word also named.
- Distinctive style or elegance.
- Synonyms: elan, elegance, grace, panache, style
- (obsolete) Smell; odor.
- (obsolete) Olfaction; sense of smell.
Translations
Verb
flair (third-person singular simple present flairs, present participle flairing, simple past and past participle flaired)
- (transitive) To add flair.
Anagrams
- filar, frail
French
Etymology
From flairer, from Latin flagrare (“to blow”). Cognate to Portuguese cheiro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl??/
Noun
flair m (plural flairs)
- sense of smell
- (by extension) intuition, sixth sense
Further reading
- “flair” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- rifla
Old French
Noun
flair m (oblique plural flairs, nominative singular flairs, nominative plural flair)
- smell; odor
- sense of smell
Scots
Alternative forms
- fluir
Etymology
From Old English fl?r.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fler/
Noun
flair (plural flairs)
- floor
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 140:
- He skited it over the flair maybe if it was a jotter and it was you to go and get it.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 140:
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse fleiri, from Proto-Germanic *flaizô.
Adjective
flair
- More; comparative of marge (“many,”) and mang.
- Many, several.
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virtuosity
English
Etymology
virtuoso +? -ity (“quality of”); the terminal -o drops out.
Noun
virtuosity (countable and uncountable, plural virtuosities)
- The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.
- Lovers of the elegant arts as a class.
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