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▪ I. sans, n. Typog.|sænz|
Also Sans (esp. as the proper name of particular type-faces).
A shortened form of sanserif.
1927A. J. Watkins Advertisement Lay-Out & Copy-Writing 116/2 Serifs,..not present on block letters or sans type. 1932H. A. Maddox Printing (ed. 2) iii. 40 (caption) Sans-serif (Gill Sans in light, medium, and bold). 1959O. Mills Stairway to Murder ii. 16 Brash cardboard notices in harsh Sans letters. 1966Berry & Poole Annals Printing 208/1 Modern sans include Futura (1927), Cable (1927), [etc.]. 1969J. Wainwright Big Tickle 124 The double-column headline was in Sans Heavy Italic. 1978Antiques & Art Monitor 28 Oct. 19/2 The result was a series of type-faces, ‘Perpetua’ and ‘Sans’, which remain some of the noblest and least fussy in the world.
▪ II. sans, prep.|sænz, sɑ̃(z)|
Forms: α. 4 san, saune, (saunt), 4–5 saun. β. 4–5 sanz, saunz, 5–6 sauns, 5–7 saunce, 6–7 sance, 4– sans. See also sans fail.
[a. OF. sen and sens, later san and sans, sanz, mod.F. sans = Pr. senes, sens, ses, OCat. senes (mod. sens), OSp. sen and senes, mod.Sp. sin, Pg. sem, formerly sen, OIt. sen:—pop.L. *sene (for class. L. sine) and *senes (with analogical s).
The It. senza is now believed to represent L. absentia absence, prob. with some influence from the popular L. prep.]
1. a. Without. Now arch. (chiefly with reminiscence of Shakespeare), joc., and Her.
Before the time of Shakes. used almost exclusively with ns. adopted from OF., in collocations already formed in that language, as sans delay, sans doubt, sans fable, sans pity, sans return. Even in some of our earliest examples, however, a native Eng. synonym has been substituted for the Romanic n. in the phrase, as in sans biding = sans delay.
αc1320Sir Tristr. 2253 Þat mani man miȝt y se San schewe. 13..K. Alis. 600 He schal beo poisond, saun return Of his owne traitour. 13..[see fable n. 1 d]. 1375Canticum de Creatione 62 in Anglia I. 304 Bote mete founde þeȝ non saun doute such as hy hadden byfore. a1400Pistill of Susan 181 (MS. A) Þe prestes saun pite, And ful of falshede. c1425Cast. Persev. 74 in Macro Pays 79 Þe vycys arn ful lyckely þe vertues to opresse saun dowte.
βc1320Gosp. Nicod. 127 (Sion MS.), Saunz doute swa dide þai alle bydene. 13..Coer de L. 681 Go in, sans bydyng. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 286 Religioun sanz reule and resonable obedience. c1400Beryn 2150 Tell on, saunce delay. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. xli. 407 Here came a knyght called sir Breuse saunce pyte. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) II. 478 Thou art sauns faulte the tyrant that I seke. 1587Harrison England ii. vi. 168/1 It is a greefe vnto them though now sans remedie sith the thing is doone and past. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 415 My loue to thee is sound sans cracke or flaw. 1600― A.Y.L. ii. vii. 166 Second childishnesse, and meere obliuion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans euery thing. 1610Muses Gard. for Delights ii. ii. 3 My life thou may'st command saunce doubt. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 765 A man is compleat Armour in brasse, sans Helme. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 210 If we step higher to trees sans date. a1687Cotton Poems (1689) 94 The Bears and Foxes, who sans question Than we by odds have warmer Vests on. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xiii. 470 Some term this tower, Sans Port, or Gate. 1797Brydges Hom. Trav. II. 239 There⁓fore, sans favour and affection, Take thou, my boy, thy own election. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. s.v., A dragon or griffin, sans wings. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. II. 208 Sans accident we arrived,..and sans steamer..we were obliged to trust to our little tremulous craft. 1883Burton & Cameron Gold Coast I. i. 13 A sailer-made-steamer, sans boats, sans gunwales. 1901G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville iii. 324 And my blows unpaid, Sans stakes, sans victory, sans everything I had hoped to win. 1922L. Strachey Let. 6 Feb. in Let.: V. Woolf & L. Strachey (1956) 97, I am sans eyes, sans teeth, sans prick, sans..but after that there can be no more sanses. 1929Oxford Poetry 45 Here, foundling and cheat, my Lord Parvenu suns His armorial lie, sans remorse and sans pother. 1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 78 Sans rank, sans aircraft, sans everything to show off about, he'll be just a foolish little figure. 1970Nature 28 Feb. 781/2 The specimen, though sans its right hind paddle, is a fine example of Ichthyosaurus platyodon (Conybeare). 1975Publishers Weekly 18 Aug. 58/2, 75 relevant illustrations sans razzle-dazzle. 1977Rolling Stone 30 June 68/1 It offers anxiety enough for the Rhodesians themselves,..to face the prospect of starting life afresh in some harsher, colder country, sans servants, sans swimming pool, sans sunshine, sans supremacy. 1979A. Hailey Overlord iii. i. 196 The result was a high-quality recording, sans commercials, which the adults and other families watched later at their leisure.
†b. With the exception of. [So in Fr.]
1659Evelyn Let. to Boyle 3 Sept., All play interdicted, sans bowls, chess, &c.
2.
‖a. Used in various Fr. phrases and combinations (not naturalized) either in their original Fr. use or in derived applications: sans appel, used subst., a person from whom there is no appeal; sans blague, you don't say! I don't believe it!; sans cérémonie, unceremoniously, without the usual ceremony or polite form; also attrib. suitable for unceremonious occasions; † sans dener [see denier3], a penniless person; sans dire, without saying anything, without mentioning (something specified); sans doute, doubtless, no doubt; sans façon = sans cérémonie; sans-gêne [gêne constraint], disregard of the ordinary forms of civility or politeness; sans-pareil, lit. not having its like, † (a) used subst. for a kind of perfume or smelling salts; (b) (as two words) unique, unequalled; hence sans-pareilly a. nonce-wd., unexampled; sans peur, without fear, fearless, often in (or with allusion to) the phr. sans peur et sans reproche, which was applied to the Chevalier de Bayard; sans phrase [after la mort sans phr., the alleged words of Sieyes in giving his vote for the death of Louis XVI], without more words, without circumlocution, without exceptions or qualifications; sans prendre (see vole); † sans-punie, with impunity; sans recours (Law) [cf. recourse n.1 4 b], ‘without recourse (to me)’, an endorsement on a bill of exchange absolving the endorser or any other party from liability as such party; sans reproche, without reproach, blameless (see sans peur above); sans souci, lit. without care or concern; as n., unconcern; also, † a free-and-easy social gathering; hence sans-souciant a. rare, carefree, unworried; sans-souci-ism, unconcern.
1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! II. xi. 299 He had followed in full faith such a *sans-appel as he held Frank to be.
1922Joyce Ulysses 398 A drenching of that violence, he tells me, *sans blague, has sent more than one luckless fellow in good earnest posthaste to another world. 1967New Yorker 25 Feb. 39/1 Aristide..I happen to be only forty-four. Auto-coiffeur. Sans blague? I would have put you at twice that age.
1645Evelyn Diary 23 Feb., The burying-place for the common prostitutes, where they are put into the ground, *sans ceremonie. 1773H. Walpole Let. to Mann 27 Apr., The Sheriffs of Middlesex, sans cérémonie, summoned Wilkes, instead of Luttrell. 1807W. Irving Salmag. (1811) I. 158 The honest old comfortable sans-ceremonie furniture is discarded. 1857‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green iii. ii, This evil..obliged neighbours to be hospitable to each other, sans cérémonie.
1469Paston Lett. II. 349 We pore *sanz deners of Castr have brook iij. or iiij. stelle bowys.
1881Trollope Ayala's Angel II. xxviii. 68 I ain't. You might as well let that accident pass, *sans dire.
1890E. Dowson Let. 17 June (1967) 154 *Sans doute you know your way by this time. 1918‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 11 Jan. (1977) 90 A pimp getting in [a train] to hold a seat for some super-pimp gave me such a blow in the chest that it is blue today. I thought: ‘This is Marseilles, sans doute.’
1672W. Perwich Desp. (Roy. Hist. Soc.) 224 His Maty replyed hee might doe it at that time *sans façon. 1838Granville Spas Germ. 257 The simple, quiet, and sans façon manner in which this daily intercourse..took place. 1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore II. xxiii. 305 His usual sans façon, good⁓humoured style.
1893Saltus Sapphira 87 With the *sans-gêne of a married man, Nevius dropped in a chair.
1749Lady Luxborough Lett. to Shenstone (1775) 167 Methinks I smell the *sans pareille hither. 1753J. Collier Art of Tormenting 55 Hastily take snuff, or smell to your sans-pareil. 1766[Anstey] Bath Guide iii. 26 Eau de Chipre, Eau de Luce, Sans Pareil, and Citron Juice. 1962John o' London's 20 Sept. 287/1 This conducted tour..must be quite sans pareil for..candour.
1818Keats Wks. (1889) III. p. cxxxi, An unpardonable offence, so *sans pareilly.
1812Amer. St. Papers For. Relat. (1832) III. 556 He told them that he had nothing to fear, that he was ‘*sans peur et sans reproche’. 1827Disraeli Viv. Grey vii. xiii[x], The Knight, sans peur et sans reproche. 1847Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Blasphemer's Warning, He had been sans reproche, as he still was sans peur.
1808Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) II. iv. 139, I hope you will remember how impatient I shall be to hear your opinion *sans phrase. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 793/2 This study gives us the science of empirical psychology, or, as it is now termed, psychology sans phrase. 1919D. Russell Let. Nov. in Tamarisk Tree (1975) v. 78, I got him to accept sans phrase for the moment. 1956Ann. Reg. 1955 8 If they chose to expel him, he would become Independent sans phrase. 1961J. Wilson Reason & Morals iii. 161 Thus we might say (almost sans phrase, as some early Christian authorities did) ‘sex is bad’. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 337/1 A. J. P. Taylor is the representative historian of our century... He is a historian sans phrase, not a man using history as the vehicle for other gifts.
1728Vanbr. & Cib. Prov. Husb. v. iii. 110 Laying down a Vote, *sans prendre. 1731Fielding Mod. Husb. i. iv, If it had not been for a cursed Sans-prendrevole, that swept the whole table.
1609[Bp. W. Barlow] Answ. Nameless Cath. 138 His Proclamations..must bee either calumniated, or *sans-punie transgressed.
1874J. B. Byles Treat. Law Bills of Exchange (ed. 11) v. 38 A safe and proper mode in which an agent may indorse, so as to avoid personal responsibility, is by adding the words, *sans recours or without recourse to me. 1974D. W. Fiddes Business Terms, Phr. & Abbrev. (ed. 14) 184 Sans recours is a phrase used in the endorsement of bills and notes. When an endorser wishes to free himself of responsibility, he adds the words Sans Recours, or Without recourse to me.
1847*Sans reproche [see sans peur]. 1858Trollope Three Clerks III. i. 23 His conduct had been sans reproche.
1781H. Walpole Lett. (1858) VIII. 65 Mrs. Hobart did not invite me to her *sans souci last week, though she had all my other juvenile contemporaries. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VIII. 685/1 Their tout ensemble indicates health and delight, or at least an air of sans souci.
1826W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Mar. (1972) 109, I have in my odd *sans souciant character a good handful of meal from the grist of the Jolly Miller who—once Dwelld on the river dee.
1837Tait's Mag. IV. 390 Buoyant with youth, wine, *sans-souci-ism, and a holiday.
b. In jocular nonce-wds.: sans-breech = sans-culottid; sans-potato, an indigent Irishman.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. xviii. iv, Our intercalary Days Sans-breeches. 1839― Chartism iv. (1840) 25 The Sanspotatoe is of the selfsame stuff as the superfinest Lord Lieutenant. |