Meanings
adverb
- alternativeAlternative form of apropos.
"You are an awfully good sort," he said to her once a propos of nothing at all.
1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 1211 more example
windows are favourite seats; and who knows how much may be effected in a tête-à-tête, by the crimson shade of the curtain flitting over a fair cheek à propos?
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 53
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