Definitions
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- noun The state of being
chic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun elegance by virtue of being fashionable
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Examples
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After all, state dinners and other similar events allowed the Kennedys to show the world a new side of our country: one premised on youth, chicness, and a uniquely American cultural sophistication.
Lesley M. M. Blume: State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton Lesley M. M. Blume 2011
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I listen well, I have a good sense of style editing, and know how to push the envelope but still maintain chicness, sophistication and excitement.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway #13, "Final Four" Holly Cara Price 2011
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Kunis, gorgeous as she is, embodies a new generation of women stars, as she features in a beloved raunchy cartoon in "Family Guy" and boasts of her massive geek chicness, including an abiding love of Star Trek.
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After all, state dinners and other similar events allowed the Kennedys to show the world a new side of our country: one premised on youth, chicness, and a uniquely American cultural sophistication.
Lesley M. M. Blume: State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton Lesley M. M. Blume 2011
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And although the idea feels very now, there is precedent for such cheap chicness.
So Chic It's Unreal Lauren Goodman 2011
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After all, state dinners and other similar events allowed the Kennedys to show the world a new side of our country: one premised on youth, chicness, and a uniquely American cultural sophistication.
Lesley M. M. Blume: State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton Lesley M. M. Blume 2011
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Kodak was killed by miserable managers most of them imported from centers of intellectual chicness, period.
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This set combines modern fashion trends with light and bright materials, creating fairy-tale ambiance full of tenderness and chicness.
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After all, state dinners and other similar events allowed the Kennedys to show the world a new side of our country: one premised on youth, chicness, and a uniquely American cultural sophistication.
Lesley M. M. Blume: State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton Lesley M. M. Blume 2011
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Another problem with being a member of the Fashion Force: sometimes it's too hard to compute the chicness of a person, tell the driver to stop on the corner and race after that person.
On Patrol With the Fashion Police Marshall Heyman 2011
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