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dégagé

[ dey-gah-zhey; French dey-ga-zhey ]

adjective

  1. unconstrained; easy, as in manner or style.
  2. without emotional involvement; detached.


dégagé

/ deɡaʒe /

adjective

  1. unconstrained in manner; casual; relaxed
  2. uninvolved; detached


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dégagé1

< French, past participle of dégager to release, free, redeem, Old French desg ( u ) agier; de-, gage 1; engage

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Example Sentences

It serves to give them a dégagé kind of air, by which means you have a more elegant display of their charms.

Four young ladies, in dégagé attitudes, were lounging round their afternoon refection of tea.

Mr. Medcroft finally waved every one aside in the most dégagé manner imaginable.

If a man is standing loosely, in some careless dégagé attitude, and a sudden impact comes upon him, over he goes.

Its first quality is ease—absence of effort, spontaneity, freedom, a dégagé air.

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