Both Uses of
fluent
in
The Age of Innocence
- But Beaufort understood every turn of her dialect, and spoke it fluently: his view of life, his tone, his attitude, were merely a coarser reflection of those revealed in Count Olenski's letter.†
Chpt 15 *
- The Vicar soon abandoned the struggle; but the tutor, who spoke the most fluent and accomplished English, gallantly continued to pour it out to her until the ladies, to the manifest relief of all concerned, went up to the drawing-room.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(fluent) able to easily comprehend and express; or expressed smoothly -- especially in a foreign language