Meaning of Swank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fashionably elegant person.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. Ostentation; bravado.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Us Morans don't like swanks, and that girl was a swank. Stuck-up rich girl. She wore a practically new gabardine with the same paper Union Jack flag as me, only hers was tucked into her coat buttonhole, behind a gold cat pasted with jewels.”

“'It is mere swank sending it to us,' said he. 'We have to be there whatever happens, as the hangman said to the murderer.'”

“Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.”

“Huge waves keep coming in over the front and I have seen the boat nearly go under any number of times. All the others pretend to take no notice of this, either from swank or because Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts.”

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