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chic    Audio Help   [sheek] Pronunciation Key adjective, -er, -est.
1.attractive and fashionable; stylish: a chic hat.
–noun
2.style and elegance, esp. in dress: Paris clothes have such chic.
3.stylishness; modishness: the chic of the firstnighters.

[Origin: 1855–60; < F < G Schick skill]

chicly, adverb
chicness, noun

1. smart, elegant, modish.
The spelling pronunciation    Audio Help   [chik] Pronunciation Key is considered nonstandard except when used facetiously.
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chic    Audio Help   (shēk)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   chic·er, chic·est
  1. Conforming to the current fashion; stylish: chic clothes; a chic boutique.
  2. Adopting or setting current fashions and styles; sophisticated: chic, well-dressed young executives. See Synonyms at fashionable.

n.  
  1. The quality or state of being stylish; fashionableness.
  2. Sophistication in dress and manner; elegance.


[French, probably from German Schick, skill, fitness, elegance, from Middle High German (sich) schicken, to outfit (oneself), fit in.]

chic'ly adv., chic'ness n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
chic 
1856, from Fr., originally "subtlety," perhaps related to Ger. schick "tact, skill," from M.L.G. schikken "arrange appropriately;" or from Fr. chicane, from chicanerie (see chicanery).

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chic

adjective
1. elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut" 

noun
1. elegance by virtue of being fashionable 

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chic [ʃiːk] adjective
stylish
Example: She looks very chic.
Arabic: أنيق
Chinese (Simplified): 时式的, 别致的
Chinese (Traditional): 時式的, 別致的
Czech: elegantní, šik
Danish: smart; fiks; chic
Dutch: chic
Estonian: šikk
Finnish: tyylikäs
French: chic
German: schick
Greek: κομψός
Hungarian: sikkes
Icelandic: tískulegur, smart
Indonesian: necis, anggun
Italian: elegante
Japanese: あか抜けした
Korean: (복장이) 멋있는
Latvian: elegants
Lithuanian: elegantiškas, prašmatnus
Norwegian: moteriktig, elegant
Polish: elegancki, szykowny
Portuguese (Brazil): chique
Portuguese (Portugal): chique
Romanian: şic
Russian: элегантный
Slovak: elegantný
Slovenian: eleganten
Swedish: chic, elegant
Turkish: şık, modaya uygun
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Chic

Chic\, n. [F.] Good form; style. [Slang]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Chic

Chic\, a. [F. Cf. Chic, n.] Original and in good taste or form. [Colloq.]

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