Crossword-Solution: CHIC 4 letters, 197 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic.

Witherspoon would introduce friends who had been head hunting in England, France, and Germany, countries not quite so CHIC as Sarawak, but more useful for general culture.

And at the cost of a terrible headache, she had at last conceived one of those toilettes which are sure to make a sensation, and which the newspaper reporters will mention as noticeable for its “chic.” “Picture to yourself,” she said, all ablaze with enthusiasm, “picture to yourself a robe of tea-flower silk, trimmed with bands of heavy holland-tinted satin, thickly embroidered with flowers.

The scenery is Californian in part, and in part _chic._ I was downstairs to-day! So now I am a made man—till the next time.

The day before yesterday was Mother’s birthday; but it was not so jolly as usual because Mother is so often ill; for a birthday present I painted her a box with a spray of clematis, which looks awfully chic.