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flair    Audio Help   [flair] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for writing rhymes.
2.smartness of style, manner, etc.: Their window display has absolutely no flair at all.
3.keen perception or discernment.
4.Hunting. scent; sense of smell.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < F, OF: scent, n. deriv. of flairier to reek ≪ VL *flāgrāre, dissimilated var. of L frāgrāre. See fragrant]

—Synonyms 2. chic, dash, panache, verve; oomph, pizazz.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
flair    Audio Help   (flâr)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A natural talent or aptitude; a knack: a flair for interior decorating.
  2. Instinctive discernment; keenness: a flair for the exotica.
  3. Distinctive elegance or style: served us with flair.


[Middle English, fragrance, from Old French, from flairer, to scent, from Late Latin flāgrāre, alteration of Latin frāgrāre, to emit an odor.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
flair 
c.1340, "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.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
flair

noun
1. a natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating" 
2. distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash] 
3. a shape that spreads outward; "the skirt had a wide flare" [syn: flare] 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
flair [fleə] noun
a natural ability or cleverness for (doing) something
Example: She has flair for (learning) languages.
Arabic: مَيْل طبيعي، نَزْعَه
Chinese (Simplified): （天生的）才能
Chinese (Traditional): (天生的)才能
Czech: talent
Danish: flair for; anlæg for; talent for
Dutch: talent
Estonian: loomupärane anne
Finnish: luontainen kyky
French: flair, don
German: der Spürsinn
Greek: ταλέντο
Hungarian: hajlam
Icelandic: hæfileiki
Indonesian: bakat
Italian: disposizione
Japanese: 勘
Korean: 선천적 소질, 천부적 재능
Latvian: spējas; dotības
Lithuanian: polinkis, gabumai
Norwegian: evne, nese, *sans for
Polish: dryg, smykałka
Portuguese (Brazil): talento, dom
Portuguese (Portugal): jeito
Romanian: fler, dar
Russian: способность
Slovak: nadanie
Slovenian: dar
Spanish: don
Swedish: sinne, känsla, näsa
Turkish: Allah vergisi, yetenek
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

FLAIR language
An early system on the IBM 650.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1995-03-17)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Flair

Flair\ (fl[^a]r), n. [OE. flaireodor, fr. OF. & F. flair, fr. OF. flairier, F. flairer, to smell, LL. flagrare for L. fragrare. See Flagrant.]

1. Smell; odor. [Obs.]

2. Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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