aplomb








noun

  1. imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance.
  2. the perpendicular, or vertical, position.

noun

  1. equanimity, self-confidence, or self-possession
n.

“assurance, confidence,” 1828, from French aplomb (16c.), literally “perpendicularity,” from phrase à plomb “poised upright, balanced,” literally “on the plumb line,” from Latin plumbum “(the metal) lead” (see plumb (n.)), of which the weight at the end of the line was made.

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