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- 1. without: literary, humorous "a picture of Maughan sans specs"
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Nov 18, 2011 · Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." A Horace Walpole example, regarding Frederick the Great: Have you seen the works of the philosopher of Sans Souci, or rather, of the man who is no philosopher, and who has more Souci than any man now in Europe? How contemptible they are!
Apr 29, 2019 · The definition of sans is simply without, see for example Merriam-Webster. They also provide some examples of use: She went to the party sans her husband. anyone sans shirt will not be allowed in the restaurant. Similarly, the Oxford Dictionary has: humorous, literary. Without.
Jan 9, 2019 · Jan 9, 2019 at 2:47. Use sans for big flashing billboards; use serif for everything else. :) – tchrist ♦. Jan 9, 2019 at 2:56. 3. Use it when you need a one-syllable word for "without" so that your line scans properly. Otherwise, stick with "without". – Hellion.
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May 4, 2021 · To SAUNTER v.n. [aller à la sainte terre, from idle people who roved about the country, and asked charity under pretence of going à la sainte terre, to the holy land, or sans terre, as having no settled home] To wander about idly ; to loiter ; to linger.
I have heard the term "CFNM" being used in sexuality, does anybody know what the term means ? (Note: OP said "CNFM", but another user edited that to "CFNM".) Actually 'googling' didn't help at all.
4. "Save for" means "except for", a prepositional phrase. In the story "The story of an hour" by Kate Chopin: "She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead."
sans repercussion or judgment; I found that "the powers that be" seems to be a idiom. There's another paragraph: If there isn't a healthy respect for individual experimentation versus the neverending pursuit of the Next Thing on the collective project task list, these initiatives are destined to fail.
I agree with Robusto, I think. There is a semantic difference between "allow" and "allow for". "B did X, allowing Y" implies that by doing X, B directly caused Y to happen.
Hanged has the specific meaning of execution by hanging, with a rope, "until dead." From NOAD: 2 ( past hanged ) [ trans. ] kill (someone) by tying a rope attached from above around the neck and removing the support from beneath (used as a form of capital punishment) : he was hanged for murder | she hanged herself in her cell
