Definitions

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  • phrase Free of anxiety; not stressed or tense.
  • phrase military in a relaxed position with the feet apart rather than at attention
  • phrase military Allowed to refrain from being in rigid formation.

Etymologies

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Calque of the Old French a eise, from a ("at") + eise.

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