Adjective : a debonair gentleman.    From Dictionary.com. 

A suit of shepherd's plaid, with a fair face and graceful agile form, recalling the word debonnaire as she had yesterday heard it applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference

But yet, shall my vanity extend only to personals, such as the gracefulness of dress, my debonnaire, and my assurance? —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

And they all demanded a hero, debonnaire and balanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference

Christians, the debonnaire and courtly courage of the dashing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Magic Door] Reference

From the waist upwards I was unconcerned and even debonnaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Galley Impressions and Tales] Reference

Gait shews him not to be so debonnaire in dancing a Minuit as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks on Clarissa (1749)] Reference

= A refined, debonnaire sensualist, courted by women and envied by men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference

'Can you excuse it, father?' he said, with all the old debonnaire manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference

Louis shrugged like a Frenchman, looked debonnaire, and said 'Good - night.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference

He was astonishing himself by the debonnaire appropriateness of his remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference

The debonnaire expression passed over his face, as he glanced around, saying, 'You are right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference

'It was strange, and a little debonnaire, I think,' said Mary, smiling, but tears gathering in her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference

Recklessly brave, jovial, light - hearted, debonnaire they were with kindred capacity for cavalry command.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference

This is the complete three-volume French edition, with red and gold cover, smart and debonnaire like its author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Magic Door] Reference

But the aspects of the wearers of warlike accoutrements are debonnaire and smiling, as of revellers on a holiday of peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

With a remonstrance in every fingertip, a debonnaire Frenchman was laughingly upbraiding his fellow for giving him bad advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonah and Co.] Reference

Hussars of Conflans, gay-riding, plume-tossing, debonnaire, the darling of the ladies and of the six brigades of light cavalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales] Reference

Here is the debonnaire animal finally titivated, and I quite agree, much improved, though I mourn the loss of some of the spice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference

"There is no telling," replied Margaret -- (how "fair and debonnaire she looked, as she spoke!)" Allow me to remind you that I am.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman's Advocate.] Reference

I was aghast at the freedom of treasonable speech with which this very debonnaire gentleman ventured to address an utter stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

They smoked silently for a moment -- Verisschenzko's Calmuck face fixed and inscrutable and Denzil's debonnaire English one usually grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Things] Reference

He no longer resembled Velasquez 'haughty cavalier; gone, too, was the debonnaire bearing, I turned my head aside swiftly, hoping that he had not detected my backward glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bat Wing] Reference

It wasn't debonnaire or legionnaire or militaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [the mission song]

Let tyrants tremble; but I, who am what St. Simon pretends to be, the most debonnaire man since Louis le debonnaire, what have I to fear? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental] Reference