debonair
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A quavering voice, a well-groomed mustache, a debonnaire manner brought him leading comedy parts in cinema, where many remember him best as the doctor-husband in Reunion in Vienna.
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A debonnaire French couple, Met Mme Pierre Brunet, won the championship for pairs.
From Time Magazine Archive
They gave him, he though, rather a debonnaire look.
From Psmith in the City by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Staying in the house is a dangerous woman, not possessed of siren fascinations; indeed, on the contrary, she is of a plainness to chill the blood of a debonnaire man like Monsieur Moore.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
On the journey down Psmith was inclined to be debonnaire.
From Psmith in the City by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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