sans-façon

French

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Noun

sans-façon m (plural sans-façon or sans-façons)

  1. ease
    Alternative form: sans façon
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Il tendit sa main avec un sans-façon de gentilhomme: et madame Bovary machinalement avança la sienne, sans doute obéissant à l'attraction d'une volonté plus forte.
      He held out his hand with the ease of a gentleman; and Madame Bovary extended hers, without doubt obeying the attraction of a stronger will.
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