Sekirov Dictionary

chic

/ʃiːk/

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 5

noun3

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Good form; style.
- You can be assured that whatever article of wearable chic you pick-up at this Newbury St. shop, you will not see it walking up and down the streets a hundred times. — 1976
•
A person with (a particular type of) chic.
- The potheads were either smoking or eating or giggling or some combination of the three. The heroin chics were nodding out. — 2005
A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.

adjective1

•
Elegant, stylish.
- Mrs. Hominy, sir, is the lady of Major Hominy, one of our chicest spirits; and belongs Toe^([sic]) one of our most aristocratic families. — 1842

forms

chics · chicer · more chic · chicest · most chic

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