# flair

Pronunciation: say "FLAIR" US /flɛɚ̯/, UK /flɛə̯/, AUS /fleː/

## Noun

1. An inborn or natural talent or aptitude for something.
   - Simple: A natural skill for doing something well.
   - _She has a real flair for languages and picked up Italian in a few months._
   - _The coach spotted his flair for defense early and moved him to the back line._
2. A distinctive, stylish quality; elegance in the way someone dresses, writes or does something.
   - Simple: A special, stylish way of dressing or doing things.
   - _She decorates small apartments with real flair, using bold colors and secondhand finds._
   - _The new art director brought a certain flair to the magazine's covers._

## Noun

3. A smell; an odor given off by something. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A smell that something gives off.
4. The sense of smell; the power to detect odors. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The ability to smell things.

## Origin

From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair ("scent, odour"), from flairier ("to reek, smell"). This comes from Latin flāgrō, a variant of frāgrō ("to give off a sweet smell"), the source of fragrant.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/flair (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).