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Swank   /swæŋk/   Listen
Swank

noun
1.
Elegance by virtue of being fashionable.  Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness.





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"Swank" Quotes from Famous Books



... called him. They wore the baggy grey clothes and clumsy looking leather top boots of the German infantryman. The spiked pickelhauben was conspicuous by its absence and was, we well knew, a thing only of billets and of "swank" parades. In its place was the soft pancake trench cap with its small colored button ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson
... cheap: in decency's name. Nobody wants to swank, to sit in the front of a box like a geranium on a window-sill—"the cynosure of many eyes." Nobody wants to profiteer. We all feel that it is as humiliating to pay high prices as to charge them. No ...
— Touch and Go • D. H. Lawrence


Words linked to "Swank" :   exhibit, fashionable, stylish, splurge, flex, display, nattiness, elegance, dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness, expose


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