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degage, dégagé (day guh ZHAY) (adjective); more degage, more dégagé; most degage, most dégagé
1. Relating to being casual, free and relaxed: The two old friends had a degage meeting again after two months.
2. Characteristic of a nonchalant; calm, composed, or unconcerned feeling or attitude: Joyce was speaking as a candidate for a high political office with a degage ease despite all of the criticisms about her inexperience.
3. Etymology: from French dégager, "to disengage, to release, to free"; from Old French desgagier des-, de-, "from, off, apart, away, down, out, completely" + gage, "pledge" (of Germanic origin).
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2. Characteristic of a nonchalant; calm, composed, or unconcerned feeling or attitude: Joyce was speaking as a candidate for a high political office with a degage ease despite all of the criticisms about her inexperience.
3. Etymology: from French dégager, "to disengage, to release, to free"; from Old French desgagier des-, de-, "from, off, apart, away, down, out, completely" + gage, "pledge" (of Germanic origin).