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façon
[ fa-sawn ]
noun
, French.
, plural fa·çons [f, a, -, sawn].
- a fashion; manner; style.
- workmanship; make.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of façon1
First recorded in 1795–1805
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Example Sentences
He had a nice, direct smile though his speech and manners were a trifle breezy, confident, and sans façon.
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But you're so matter-of-fact, Archdeacon, when it suits your purpose, that one can't trust oneself to any façon de parler.
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It was to be a lantern frolic and a lantern dance and supper, all most formally and impressively sans façon.
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He also permitted himself more ease and freedom in that house—a sort of intimacy sans façon—even a certain jocularity.
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But I knew that the Germans were a very sans façon bourgeois people, and still treated him with deep respect.
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