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Je ne sais quoi
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je ne sais quoi
1656, "an inexpressible something," from Fr., lit. "I do not know what."
EXPAND"[T]hey are troubled with the je-ne-scay-quoy, that faign themselves sick out of niceness but know not where their own grief lies, or what ayls them." [Thomas Blount, "Glossographia," 1656]
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je ne sais quoi [(zhuh nuh say kwah)]That little something; a quality that eludes description: “The Mona Lisa's smile has a certain je ne sais quoi.” From French, meaning “I don't know what.”
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