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"ref": "1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “From which It will be Seen that Martin Became a Lion on His Own Account. Together with the Reason Why.”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 277:",
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"text": "As he wisht to micks with the very chicest sosaity, and git the best of infmation about this country, Munseer Jools of coarse went and lodgd in Lester Square— […]",
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"text": "There are chic Cercles; or rather, there is only one, the Jockey Club. Why? Nobody can tell. Other Cercles are just as select, as exclusive, as well constituted, but not so chic. […] [T]he Jockey Club is so extremely chic, that many people consider the fact of belonging to it not as an ordinary circumstance, but as a dignity.",
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"text": "What is chic may, in a sense, be fashionable, but what is fashionable cannot be chic. Anybody can wear and do what is fashionable. It is not fashionable unless a lot of people do it, and have it on—until, in three words that grate rather upon the ear, in this connection, it is common. Chic cannt be common.",
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"ref": "1915 February, “Told in the Boudoir: Concerning Coiffures in General and in Particular”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 3, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:",
"text": "The hair is actually cut about the ears like that of the quaint Dutch children from the little Island of Martken. This style of coiffure gives to the grown child a chic appearance and naive insouciance that is very fascinating. The hair is worn, either parted on the side or in the middle, and is held with a jeweled band or a fillet of ribbon which is most effective. It seems a fashion not likely to be adopted to any great extent by really smart women, although La Valliere, the chic little Parisian actress, is fascinating in this style of head-dress, […]",
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"ref": "2010, Andrew Saint, “South and North”, in Richard Norman Shaw, revised (2nd) edition, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 61:",
"text": "For Murray Marks he [Richard Norman Shaw] designed a chic Oxford Street shopfront for the display of 'pots' (1875–6), […]",
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"ref": "2013, Jenna Mahoney, “Do Some Semi-homemade”, in Mary Hern, editor, Small Apartment Hacks: 101 Ingenious DIY Solutions for Living, Organizing, and Entertaining, Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Entertaining), page 163:",
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"text": "A little pear-grey glove, dropped and abandoned on the floor, may give its owner's sex and chic to the whole room; whilst an entire house-full of so-called womanly trifles will have only a neuter flavour about them, if chic be not there.",
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"ref": "2007, Matthew Craske, “A New Theatre of Death and Commemoration”, in The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 60:",
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"text": "Terms such as \"ghetto chic\" and \"gangsta' chic\" are part of a cluster of high-fashion terms that describe styles that are in vogue but set against mainstream norms. Other \"chics\" include \"nerd chic,\" \"geek chic,\" and the controversial \"heroin chic,\" in which models appear as drug addicts […]",
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"ref": "2007, Matthew Craske, “A New Theatre of Death and Commemoration”, in The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 60:",
"text": "[T]he macabre, when celebrated with the panache of a new range of retailed products, became a glib manifestation of chic: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Susan Falls, “Notes [Notes to Chapter 5]”, in Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, footnote 4, page 195:",
"text": "Terms such as \"ghetto chic\" and \"gangsta' chic\" are part of a cluster of high-fashion terms that describe styles that are in vogue but set against mainstream norms. Other \"chics\" include \"nerd chic,\" \"geek chic,\" and the controversial \"heroin chic,\" in which models appear as drug addicts […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Good form; style."
],
"links": [
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"Good",
"good"
],
[
"form",
"form#Noun"
],
[
"style",
"style#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly uncountable) Good form; style."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1978, Nelly Wilson, “Anarchism”, in Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problem of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-century France, paperback edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, part I (Before the Dreyfus Affair), page 47:",
"text": "It was probably fortunate for him [Bernard Lazare] that the police, who started keeping a fairly regular watch on his activities in April 1893, also inclined towards thinking that he was merely following the fashion of other young ‘bourgeois chics’ (though at times they evidently had second thoughts).",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Pierre Maranda, “Beyond Postmodernism: Resonant Anthropology”, in Gilles Bibeau, Ellen Corin, editors, Beyond Textuality: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation (Approaches to Semiotics; 120), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 329:",
"text": "Striving for admission in those exclusive circles so as to gain higher social recognition and acceptance by the chics, anthropologists who were already subservient to other philosophical musings such as hermeneutics and phenomenology, started to upgrade their language and to treat cultures as \"texts\".",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Pamela Anderson, Star Struck, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 149:",
"text": "The potheads were either smoking or eating or giggling or some combination of the three. The heroin chics were nodding out.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person with (a particular type of) chic."
],
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"(countable) A person with (a particular type of) chic."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃiːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃik/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-iːk"
},
{
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},
{
"homophone": "sheikh stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "elegantnost",
"sense": "good form, style",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "елегантност"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iziskanost",
"sense": "good form, style",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "изисканост"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "šik",
"sense": "good form, style",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шик"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "good form, style",
"word": "sjiek"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "good form, style",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Chic"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "good form, style",
"word": "sikk"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "share",
"sense": "good form, style",
"word": "洒落"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šik",
"sense": "good form, style",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шик"
}
],
"word": "chic"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Yucatec Maya",
"English terms derived from Yucatec Maya",
"Pages with 9 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Fashion"
],
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"3": "chiʼik",
"t": "coati; buffoon"
},
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"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chiʼik (“coati; buffoon”).",
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{
"form": "chics",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"ref": "1972, Sarah C. Blaffer, The Black-man of Zinacantan: A Central American Legend, Austin and London: University of Texas Press, page 51:",
"text": "the chics of Dzitas, Yucatán, if they caught a small boy, removed his clothes and rubbed gunpowder in his anus. In the Yucatec barrio of “Santiago,” the chics amuse crowds by lassoing men and fining them",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Victoria Schlesinger, Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya: A Guide, 2nd paperback edition, Austin: University of Texas Press, published 2004, page 178:",
"text": "Along with them came a man of the village known for his humorous antics; he was called the chic. Riding atop the cut tree, the chic danced and performed for the people as the procession made its way back to the village.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture."
],
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"buffoon",
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[
"clown",
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]
}
],
"word": "chic"
}
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