Hypertext Webster Gateway: "degage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
D'egag'e \D['e]`ga`g['e]"\, a. [F., p. p. of d['e]gager to
disengage. See {De-}, lst Gage, and cf. {Disgage}.]
Unconstrained; easy; free. --Vanbrugh.
A graceful and d['e]gag['e] manner. --Poe.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
degage
adj 1: free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the
nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson
2: showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage
pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she
may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not
hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" [syn:
{detached}, {uninvolved}]
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