Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Courtesy; gentleness; kindness; elegance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or quality of being debonair.

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Examples

  • I believe so, said I. —Then I’ll go to the Duke, by Heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.

    44. The Address. Versailles 1917

  • To Him thou art turned, when His grace illumines thine heart; and forsakes all vices, and conforms it to virtues and good manners, and to all manner of compliance and debonairness.

    The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

  • I believe so, said I. - Then I'll go to the Duke, by heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.

    A Sentimental Journey 1766

  • I believe so, said I. -- Then I'll go to the Duke, by heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.

    A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Laurence Sterne 1740

  • Cambridge, for his law to Gray's Inn: and for that which completed all, the government of himself, to court; where his debonairness and freedom took with the king, as his solidity and wisdom with the Cardinal. "[

    English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

  • Then I’ll go to the Duke, by heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world. — — And there you are wrong again, replied I. —

    A sentimental journey through France and Italy 1892

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