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‖ laissez-aller
(ˈleɪseɪ ˈæleɪ; Fr. lese ale)
Also laisser-aller.
[Fr.; as next + aller to go, i.e. let (persons or things) go.]
Absence of restraint; unconstrained ease and freedom.
1842Thackeray Miss Löwe Misc. Ess. (1885) 310 As Wilder said with some justice, though with a good deal too much laisser-aller of tongue. 1862― Philip II. xxi, Sir John..was constrained to confess that this young man's conduct showed a great deal too much laissez aller.
attrib.1818Lady Morgan Flor. Macarthy II. iii. 178 He..found or fancied in her what he called the ‘delicious laissez aller ease of a charming French woman’. 1832Ld. Lytton Godolphin xx, Those well-chosen laissez aller feasts. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. Pref., A magnificent high-handed laissez-aller neglect. 1871[see fatigue man]. 1923[see dozy a.1 2]. |