a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for rhyming.
2.
smartness of style, manner, etc.: Their window display has absolutely no flair at all. Synonyms: chic, dash, panache, verve; oomph, pizazz.
3.
keen, intuitive perception or discernment: We want a casting director with a real flair for finding dramatic talent.
4.
Hunting. scent; sense of smell.
Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < French, Old French: scent, noun derivative of flairier to reek ≪ Vulgar Latin *flāgrāre, dissimilated variant of Latin frāgrāre.See fragrant
stylishness or elegance; dash: to dress with flair
4.
rarehunting
a. the scent left by quarry
b. the sense of smell of a hound
[C19: from French, literally: sense of smell, from Old French: scent, from flairier to give off a smell, ultimately from Latin frāgrāre to smell sweet; see fragrant]
mid-14c., "an odor," from O.Fr. flair "odor or scent," from flairer "to smell," from L.L. fragrare "emit (a sweet) odor" (see fragrant), with shift of -r- to -l- by dissimilation. Sense of "special aptitude" is Amer.Eng. 1925, perhaps from notion of a hound's ability to track scent.