flair

From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair (“scent, odour”), from flairier (“to reek, smell”), from Latin flāgrō, dissimilated variation of frāgrō (“emit a sweet smell”, verb). More at fragrant.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /flɛə/
• (US) enPR: flâr, IPA^(key): /flɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: flare

flair (countable and uncountable, plural flairs)

1. A natural or innate talent or aptitude; a knack.
2. Distinctive style or elegance; panache or elan.
3. (obsolete) Smell; odor.
4. (obsolete) The sense of smell.

• (natural or innate talent): gift, knack, talent
• (distinctive style or elegance): elan, elegance, grace, panache, style

flair (third-person singular simple present flairs, present participle flairing, simple past and past participle flaired)

1. (transitive) To add flair.
   • 1988, Poul Jorgensen, Poul Jorgensen's Book of Fly Tying: A Guide to Flies for All Game Fish

     Place your thumb on top of the shank and your bent index finger under the hair and pull the tying thread tight to flair it.

• filar, frail

From flairer, from Latin flagrare (“to blow”). Cognate to Portuguese cheiro.

• IPA^(key): /flɛʁ/

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flair m (plural flairs)

1. sense of smell
2. (by extension) intuition, sixth sense

• “flair” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• rifla

flair m (oblique plural flairs, nominative singular flairs, nominative plural flair)

1. smell; odor
2. sense of smell

• fluir

From Old English flōr.

• IPA^(key): /fler/

flair (plural flairs)

1. floor
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 140:

     He skited it over the flair maybe if it was a jotter and it was you to go and get it.