débonnaire
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of debonair.
Example Sentences
- "I look up, and discern him perched in a cherry-tree, chanting loud in the innocent lightness of his spirits, and greeting me with a débonnaire ‘Bonjour, mademoiselle.’"
- "Why, poor Jules was a débonnaire young fellow like me the other day,—peaceable, laborious; […]"
- "He explains in a débonnaire way the motive of his intrusion. […] The amount is eleven hundred and odd pounds, and in the event of Mrs. Westray not being ready to pay that sum, the débonnaire gentleman is hero to take possession of the aforesaid furniture by his minion, the man with the sleek hat."
- "He went off to the mills as he spoke, walking with quite a débonnaire manner, for he knew she was watching him from the window."
- "“Oh,” said the other, in a débonnaire manner, “he’s no heart.[…]”"
- "“So do I, dear,” confessed Lady Flashe, a well-known society hostess who looked a débonnaire five-and-twenty, whilst a pitiless “Peerage” chronicled her age at forty-three."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more débonnaire (comparative)
most débonnaire (superlative)