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flairsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From flair + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by flair.
   • A special issue of the National Business Review had chosen 54 newsmakers of the decade, so the newsletter included Colin James's assessment that I was 'Parliament's most flairsome member, 1980. 2019, Marilyn Waring, Marilyn Waring: The Political Years:
   • Nay, I niver get ony harm, as I know on, fro' th' little chaps though I do shiver whiles, for their curses is summat flairsome to hearken to. 1900, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Shameless Wayne:
   • Flairsome shoe shapes with a flutter of bow or a sliver of T-strap...and the merest butterfly touch on the foot. 1958, Mademoiselle, volume 47, page 15:
   • […] blow-ups in some crises, has also kept him from rising to the big, flairsome gesture at other times. 1952, Newsweek, volume 40, page 37:

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