debonnaire

a suit of shepherd's plaid, with a fair face and graceful agile form, recalling the word debonnaire as she had yesterday heard it applied.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

He made the gesture that Mrs. Frost called debonnaire -- read on for five minutes in silence, insisted on teaching his aunt the cause of the colours in peacock ores, compared them to a pigeon's neck, and talked of old Betty Gervas's tame pigeons; whence he proceeded to memories of the days that he and Mary had spent together, and asked which of their old haunts she had revisited.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

And this coming out of a good nest is recognized as, of all things, needfulest to give the strength which enables people to be good-humored; and thus you have "debonnaire" forming the third word of the group, with

Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

Something debonnaire; which need not be separated from that awe and reverence, when they address a woman, which should shew the ardour of their passion, rather than the sheepishness of their nature; for who knows not that love delights in taming the lion-hearted?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

But yet, shall my vanity extend only to personals, such as the gracefulness of dress, my debonnaire, and my assurance? —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I slow-motioned, I fast-forwarded, and I was none the wiser: three to four beats with a u at the beginning, a three - or four-syllable word with - ere or - aire at the end, and I could think of a dozen words straight off with an ending that would fit: debonnaire, legionnaire, militaire, any air you liked to play.

the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

I slow-motioned, I fast-forwarded, and I was none the wiser: three to four beats with a u at the beginning, a three - or four-syllable word with - ere or - aire at the end, and I could think of a dozen words straight off with an ending that would fit: debonnaire, legionnaire, militaire, any air you liked to play.

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

He listened, with no painful emotion, to the merry notes of the guitar and tamborine; and, though tears came to his eyes, when he saw the debonnaire dance of the peasants, they were not merely tears of mournful regret.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Their sprightly melodies, debonnaire steps, the fanciful figure of their dances, with the tasteful and capricious manner in which the girls adjusted their simple dress, gave a character to the scene entirely French.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

They were gay and debonnaire, as they were wont to be when she, too, was gay — when St. Aubert used to listen to their merry music, with a countenance beaming pleasure and benevolence.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004