Sang-froid Definition

säōfrwä
noun
Cool self-possession or composure.
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Alternative spelling of sang-froid.

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Origin of Sang-froid

  • French sang blood (from Old French) (from Latin sanguis) froid cold (from Old French) (from Vulgar Latin frigidus) (alteration of Latin frīgidus frigid)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French sang (“blood”) + froid (“cold”)

    From Wiktionary

  • From French sang-froid (“cool blood")

    From Wiktionary

Sang-froid Sentence Examples

  • Mehemet Ali received the news with his accustomed sang-froid, observing to the consuls of the four powers, who had come to notify their own removal, that "such denunciations were nothing new to him; that this was the fourth, and that he hoped to get over it as well as he had done the other three, with the help of God and the Prophet."

  • Or was he the embodiment of English sang-froid, an empire-builder and hero?

  • She was with him during the campaign of the Pruth, and Peter always attributed the successful issue of that disastrous war to the courage and sang-froid of his consort.

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