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Flair

Flair

See also: flair

German

Noun

Flair n (genitive Flairs, plural Flairs)

Flair m (genitive Flairs, plural Flairs)

  1. flair (distinctive style or elegance)

flair

flair

See also: Flair

English

Noun

flair (plural flairs)

  1. A natural or innate talent or aptitude; a knack.
  2. Distinctive style or elegance; panache or elan.
  3. (obsolete) Smell; odor.
  4. (obsolete) The sense of smell.

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French

Etymology

From flairer, from Latin flagrare (to blow). Cognate to Portuguese cheiro.

Pronunciation

Noun

flair m (plural flairs)

  1. sense of smell
  2. (by extension) intuition, sixth sense

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Old French

Noun

flair m (oblique plural flairs, nominative singular flairs, nominative plural flair)

  1. smell; odor
  2. sense of smell

Scots

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Etymology

Old English flōr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fler/

Noun

flair (plural flairs)

  1. 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.