#309 debonair

debonair- especially of a man- suave and refined, carefree, courteous and cheerful; affable

C13 from Old French debonaire, from de bon aire having a good disposition

Ricardo Montalbán, a Mexican-born actor who starred in Hollywood dramas and candy-colored musicals in the 1940s and '50s was perhaps best known as the debonair host of the TV drama Fantasy Island.

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