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chic

fashionable, stylish; style and elegance, smart, modish: she looks so chic in that black dress
Not to be confused with:
cheek – either side of a face; nerve, audacity, gall, impudence: the kid has a lot of cheek
chick – young chicken or other bird; a child; a young pretty woman
sheik – a Muslim religious official; a leader of an Arab family, village, or tribe
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chic

 (shēk)
adj. chic·er, chic·est
1. Conforming to the current fashion; stylish: chic clothes; a chic boutique.
2. Adopting or setting current fashions and styles; sophisticated: chic, well-dressed young executives. See Synonyms at fashionable.
n.
1. The quality or state of being stylish; fashionableness.
2. Sophistication in dress and manner; elegance.

[French, probably from German Schick, skill, fitness, elegance, from Middle High German (sich) schicken, to outfit (oneself), fit in.]

chic′ly adv.
chic′ness n.
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chic

(ʃiːk; ʃɪk)
adj
(esp of fashionable clothes, women, etc) stylish or elegant
n
1. stylishness, esp in dress; modishness; fashionable good taste
2. any of various fashion movements based on a particular lifestyle: radical chic; geek chic.
[C19: from French, of uncertain origin]
ˈchicly adv
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chic

(ʃik)

adj. -er, -est,
n. adj.
1. attractive and fashionable; stylish.
n.
2. style and elegance, esp. in dress.
[1855–60; < French < German Schick skill]
chic′ly, adv.
chic′ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.chic - elegance by virtue of being fashionablechic - elegance by virtue of being fashionable
elegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"
dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness - stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance
Adj.1.chic - elegant and stylishchic - elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"
stylish, fashionable - having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
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chic

adjective stylish, smart, elegant, fashionable, trendy (Brit. informal), up-to-date, new, modish, du jour (French), à la mode, voguish (informal), culty, hip (slang) Her gown was French and very chic. the chic place to be seen around town
old-fashioned, shabby, out-of-date, unfashionable, naff (Brit. slang), outmoded, passé, inelegant, unhip (slang)
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chic

adjective
Being or in accordance with the current fashion:
Informal: classy, in, sharp, snappy, swish, tony, trendy.
Slang: with-it.
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Translations
أنيق
elegantníšik
chicfikssmart
eleganttityylikäs
sikkessikk
tískulegur, smart
elegantiškasprašmatnus
elegants

chic

[ʃiːk]
A. ADJelegante
B. Nchic m, elegancia f
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chic

[ˈʃiːk ˈʃɪk] adjchic inv, élégant(e)
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chic

adj (+er)chic, schick, elegant
nSchick m, → Chic m
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chic

[ʃiːk] adjchic inv, elegante
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chic

(ʃiːk) adjective
stylish. She looks very chic.
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The interior manages to be at once chicly industrial and welcomingly cosy, thanks to a hugely eclectic range of stuff (statues, paintings, some sort of weird knitted flower arrangement attached to a bicycle) jazzing up the scrubbed wood tables and exposed pipes on the ceiling.
"The key to this style is the neat and slick centre-part pony that sits chicly at the bottom of the head," says Sapphire Driver, Bleach London brand manager, stylist and colourist.
ROPE BRAIDS "The key to this style is the neat and slick centre-part pony that sits chicly at the bottom of the head," says Sapphire Driver, Bleach London brand manager, stylist and colourist.
During the time I spend with her, she exerts and expects a certain kind of attention, whether she's entertaining high school friends in the green room or ordering cold brew at a coffee shop staffed by chicly tattooed girls, who admire her goldenrod nails.
Accommodating 127 chicly designed rooms and suites, Millennium Istanbul Golden Horn Hotel will boast a state of the art fitness centre, luxury spa and Turkish hammam and extensive business centre, including a 404-sqm ballroom and meeting rooms.
Chani Nicholas " a kind of social-justice astrologer " has amassed a following with her chicly appointed newsletter, Twitter feed of self-help one-liners, and Instagram account where she shares empathic memes.
Dawson, Jay McKenzie, Avery Smith and Kristopher Stanley Ward, and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" for The Shirelles, chicly conjured by McKynleigh Alden Abraham, Traci Elaine Lee, Marla Louissaint and Alexis Tidwell.
Blanchett, chicly attired, declares: "I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no-one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way, if he knows the joy that rises like arrows to the astral layers, or that other joy that goes down into the mines of corpse-flowers and fertile spasms." She delivers this beleaguered, post-World War I shriek of worn-out horror as a graveside eulogy.
"Fall trends seem to be all about luxe and texture," says Erin Walsh, who has chicly outfitted Emmy nominees from Sarah Jessica Parker to Maggie Gyllenhaal (and put Kerry Washington in that metallic-sequined Marc Jacobs number that she says "went off like a bomb").
Tan or chocolate brown suit the colour scheme superbly - choose from a chicly simple unstructured pouch or a multi-pocketed pack, and discover the joy of going hands-free.
It hardly looks like a typical webcam and is a device you wouldn't mind displaying in the most chicly decorated setting.
It is the car of choice for young Italians, chicly bombing around the streets of Rome, Florence, Milan or Bologna, but it also has a resonance with young people everywhere.