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sans-gene

sans gêne

English

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Noun

sans gêne (uncountable)

  1. Lack of constraint; brazenness; unreservedness.

Translations

Adjective

sans gene

  1. Without constraint, unembarrassed.
    • 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle, chapter X
      Loolowcan was evidently at home among these compatriots, frowzier even than he. He squatted among them, sans gêne, and lighted his pipe. One of the ladies did the honors, and motioned me to a seat upon a rusty bear-skin.