Crossword-Solution: DECLASS 7 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The latter, one learns from many sources, were very often beautiful in the extreme, as were also the Domingan girls, and history is full of the tales of the curious, wild, fashionably caparisoned, declassé circle of society, which came to exist in New Orleans through the presence there of so many alluring women of light color and equally light character.

She was a solemn stately personage, _tant soit peu declassée_, and the other potentates whispered and joked at her expense.

Nevertheless most Americans still consider it a little _efféminé_, a trifle _declassé_, for a business man (allowances are sometimes made for poets, musicians, actors, and people who live in Greenwich Village), to make any references to colour or form.

What service, indeed, would it be to Mary to declass her? Of what advantage to a poor girl to separate her from her surroundings unless you can secure to her a life certainly better? "It would be well," he said after a while, "if Mary could prepare herself for some occupation by which she might some day get a living if other resources fail.

Previously he had paid his forfeits with the best of good-nature, but his previous forfeits hadn't obliged him to declass himself.