Both Uses
savoir-faire
in
This Side of Paradise
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- He felt unnecessarily stiff and awkward among these white-flannelled, bareheaded youths, who must be juniors and seniors, judging from the savoir faire with which they strolled.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- At four there were refreshments in a lunch-room, and this time they paid an even smaller per cent on the total cost; something about the appearance and savoir-faire of the crowd made the thing go, and they were not pursued.†
Chpt 1.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(savoir-faire) strong social skills
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)