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bla⋅sé

  [blah-zey, blah-zey; Fr. bla-zey]
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–adjective
indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
Origin:
1810–20; < F, ptp. of blaser to cloy, sicken from surfeit, perh. < D blasen to blow; see blast

Synonyms:
apathetic, jaded, cloyed, sated, glutted, surfeited, world-weary.
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bla·sé   (blä-zā')   
adj.  

  1. Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence.

  2. Unconcerned; nonchalant: had a blasé attitude about housecleaning.

  3. Very sophisticated.


[French, from past participle of blaser, to cloy, from French dialectal, to be chronically hung over, probably from Middle Dutch blāsen, to blow up, swell; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

blasé 
"bored from overindulgence," 1819, from Fr. blasé, pp. of blaser "to satiate," origin unknown. Perhaps from Du. blazen "to blow," with a sense of "puffed up under the effects of drinking."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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