Chic

Fashionable; comme il faut; the mode. This is an archaic French word in vogue in the seventeenth century. It really is the Spanish chico, little, also a little boy, and chica, a little girl or darling. Similarly, wee in Scotch is a loving term of admiration and pride. (Chic is an abbreviation of the German geschickt, apt, clever.)

Juse de mots de l'art, je met en marge hic;
J'espere avec le tems que j'entendrai le chic.

Les Satyres de Du Lorens, xii. p. 97.

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