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Ǿé

or Ǿ·é

[ swahn-yey; French swa-nyey ]

adjective

  1. carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.


Ǿé

/ swaɲe; ˈswɑːnjeɪ /

adjective

  1. well-groomed; elegant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Ǿé1

1915–20; < French, past participle of soigner to take care of < Germanic (compare Old Saxon sunnea care, concern)
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Ǿé1

French, from soigner to take good care of, of Germanic origin; compare Old Saxon sunnea care
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Example Sentences

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His entrepreneurial vision was informed by the classical techniques and Ǿé styles of Alain Ducasse and Paul Liebrandt — two legendary French chefs, and two of his former bosses.

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Anduaga’s Ǿé style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.

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At Southern Soigné in Jackson, Miss., Zacchaeus Golden offers a multicourse dinner for $95, a fraction of the cost of most lavish tasting-menu marathons.

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Ms. Blamey made her reputation at Chumley’s, a reconstructed speakeasy whose dining room was decorated with jackets of books by long-dead Greenwich Village writers; to anyone who ate there, it was obvious that Ms. Blamey’s cooking was more interesting than many of those books; even her cheeseburger was probably the most Ǿé cheeseburger in the city.

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He was Ǿé, to use one of his favorite words, and he had éclat, to use another.

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