dégagé

Borrowed from French dégagé.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪɡɑːˈʒeɪ/

dégagé (comparative more dégagé, superlative most dégagé)

1. unconstrained; easy; free
   • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:

     a graceful and dégagé manner

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 40, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     A letter from Miss Calverley written in a very degage style of spelling and handwriting, scrawling freely over the filagree paper, and commencing by calling Mr. Harry, her dear Hokey-pokey-fokey, lay on his bed table by his side …

• IPA^(key): /de.ɡa.ʒe/

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dégagé (feminine dégagée, masculine plural dégagés, feminine plural dégagées)

1. clear
2. bare
3. disengaged

dégagé (feminine dégagée, masculine plural dégagés, feminine plural dégagées)

1. past participle of dégager

• “dégagé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.