Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- 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.
noun
- natural ability; talent; aptitude
- instinctive discernment; perceptiveness
- stylishness or elegance; dashto dress with flair
- hunting rare
- the scent left by quarry
- the sense of smell of a hound
noun
- a Scot word for floor
mid-14c., “an odor,” from Old French flair “odor or scent,” from flairer “to smell,” from Vulgar Latin *flagrare, dissimilated from Latin fragrare “emit (a sweet) odor” (see fragrant). Sense of “special aptitude” is American English, 1925, perhaps from notion of a hound’s ability to track scent.