a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for rhyming.
smartness of style, manner, etc.: Their window display has absolutely no flair at all.
keen, intuitive perception or discernment: We want a casting director with a real flair for finding dramatic talent.
Hunting. scent; sense of smell.
Origin of flair
First recorded before 1350–1400; Middle English, from French, Old French: “scent,” noun derivative of flairier “to reek,” ultimately from unattested Vulgar Latin flāgrāre, dissimilated variant of Latin frāgrāre; see origin at fragrant
Signature cocktails are part of a restaurant or bar’s personality and flair.
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Liam Hemsworth plays the rugby star who helps Tilly figure out the family secret and Hugo Weaving plays a cross-dressing police sergeant with a flair for couture.
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The real action occurs when Daniel Theis flies over to set a flair screen for Brown on the weak side.
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“They are motivated by insecurity, fear, lack of imagination and above all, a lack of flair,” he said.
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She does not shy from a fight, and she has a flair for political theater to make Ted Cruz envious.
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Worn singularly or layered for a more dramatic effect, the thin metal bands evoke an ethnic sort of flair.
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And it bespeaks a confidence and flair not often attributed to the much-maligned candidate.
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“He had a flair for the dramatic, to be sure, but it was for more than theatrics,” Clinton said.
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And she had by now developed a kind of flair in the woods, which was the astonishment of Captain Dell, himself no mean forester.
Elizabeth's Campaign|Mrs. Humphrey Ward
In matters of personal appearance, however, Early Ann had a flair which the older woman lacked.
Plowing On Sunday|Sterling North
You see, heart counts, and sympathy, and the flair for understanding.
The Devil's Paw|E. Phillips Oppenheim
Nor had he undervalued her; he had suspected as much from the very first; connoisseur that he was, his flair had not deceived him.
Nobody|Louis Joseph Vance
If his sense of form, his flair for fatalism, still persisted, ease was out of the question and no surrogate could serve.
On the Stairs|Henry B. Fuller
British Dictionary definitions for flair (1 of 2)
flair1
/ (flɛə) /
noun
natural ability; talent; aptitude
instinctive discernment; perceptiveness
stylishness or elegance; dashto dress with flair
huntingrare
the scent left by quarry
the sense of smell of a hound
Word Origin for flair
C19: from French, literally: sense of smell, from Old French: scent, from flairier to give off a smell, ultimately from Latin frāgrāre to smell sweet; see fragrant