stilish
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Etymology
Adjective
stilish (comparative more stilish, superlative most stilish)
- Obsolete form of stylish.
- [1799], Charles Dibdin, “Ballad. In Great News.”, in A Collection of Songs, Selected from the Works of Mr. Dibdin, volume IV, London: […] the Author […], stanza IV, page 34:
- So come round me ye ſportſmen that’s ſmart and what not, / All ſtiliſh and cutting a flaſh, / When your piece won’t kill game, charged with powder and ſhot, / To bring ’em down, down with your caſh; […]
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 133:
- Did you ever see her? a smart, stilish girl they say, but not handsome.
- 1813, Thomas Morton, Education: A Comedy, in Five Acts. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden., London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], page 53:
- One must load these literary gentlemen; for a fashionable author is, now, become as necessary an appendage to a stilish party as a confectioner; or, a Bow-street officer—(going to the table).
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