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aplomb
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synonyms: sangfroid, equanimity, stolidity ???
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Definition:self-possession, coolness.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)---Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Always mature for her age, she had gained a certain aplomb in both carriage and conversation,
Louisa May Alcott. Little Women (1869)
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It was not difficult to probe the reason for his loss of aplomb.P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.1 (1971)
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"[...] And so I name, with insouciant aplomb, Turgenev and Trollope and Goethe, but so as not to be too indebted to dead white males because that would be a little too unoriginal, I added Selma Lagerlöf. And suddenly they don't know what to ask me, because I'd thrown the script out the window."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.445 (2013)
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She struck the notes with aplomb, and ran from top to bottom of the keyboard without a break.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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