stilish

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A form of stylish — Having style.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivestilish (comparative more stilish, superlative most stilish)

comparative more stilish · superlative most stilish

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of stylish.

    Did you ever see her? a smart, stilish girl they say, but not handsome.

    1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 133
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    So come round me ye ſportſmen that’s ſmart and what not, / All ſtiliſh and cutting a flaſh, / When your piece won’t kill game, charged with powder and ſhot, / To bring ’em down, down with your caſh; […]

    [1799], Charles Dibdin, “Ballad. In Great News.”, in A Collection of Songs, Selected from the Works of Mr. Dibdin, volume IV, London: […] the Author […], stanza IV, page 34

    One must load these literary gentlemen; for a fashionable author is, now, become as necessary an appendage to a stilish party as a confectioner; or, a Bow-street officer—(going to the table).

    1813, Thomas Morton, Education: A Comedy, in Five Acts. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden., London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], page 53

Origin

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Chicago

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