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noun

Flair n.

Smell; odor. (Obs.)

Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.

A talent or ability, expecially an intuitive one that makes performance of a task appear easy; an intuitive appreciation; a knack; as, she has a flair for acting.

An attractive way of performing a task; style.

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Etymology of 'Flair'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flair" Quotes from Famous Books

... his carefully developed flair for character study, guessed them from the first. Susceptibility to musical intoxication was a thing which he understood, a thing to which he himself was more or less subject. He knew the danger and the value of it. Without some such susceptibility, he believed, artistic ...

— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly

... suggested so much relief in that conviction that Farquharson, sharp on the flair of the experienced nose for waverers, looked ...

— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan

... everyone, looked into all the books that had been talked about, cast at least a glance at all the pictures which had made any stir. And she gathered impressions swiftly, and, moreover, had a natural flair for all that was first-rate, original, or strange. As she was quite independent in mind, and always took her own line, she had become an arbiter, a leader of taste. What she liked soon became liked in London and Paris throughout a large circle. Unfortunately, she was ...

— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens

... Making money requires FLAIR, instinct, insight or whatever you like to call it, but the qualities that go to make a business man are grotesquely unlike those which make a statesman; and, when you have pretensions to both, the result is the present comedy ...

— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... other is yet another version of the Gita Govinda where Krishna is shown consorting with the cowgirls in blissful abandon.[119] In both these series, the inherent loveliness of Radha and the cowgirls is expressed by supple flowing line, a flair for natural posture and the inclusion of poetic images. The scarlet of a cowgirl's skirt is echoed by the redness of a gathering storm, the insertion of Krishna into the background suggesting the ...

— The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry • W. G. Archer