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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

]

—Related forms

chicly, adverb

chicness, noun

—Synonyms 1. smart, elegant, modish.

—Pronunciation note 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

Conforming to the current fashion; stylish: chic clothes; a chic boutique.
Adopting or setting current fashions and styles; sophisticated: chic, well-dressed young executives. See Synonyms at fashionable.

The quality or state of being stylish; fashionableness.
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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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