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Last word

noun

The final statement in a verbal argument.

An authoritative statement.

Elegance by virtue of being fashionable. Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank.

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"Last word" Quotes from Famous Books

... replacing the many small colleges with a few great centralized state normal schools and state universities. We are spending millions upon them in laboratories, equipment and maintenance. Today we scour the earth for specialists to sit in the chairs and speak the last word in every department ...

— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette

... hesitated a little before the last word; for although Mr. Dunbar spoke of Joseph Wilmot as his inferior and dependant, the landlord of the George remembered that the missing man had looked quite as much ...

— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... a moment without speech. Wrayson's features, more distinguished in a general way by delicacy than strength, had assumed a curiously set and dogged appearance. His eyes met hers kindly but mercilessly. He looked like a man who has spoken his last word. ...

— The Avenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... result in the salvation of souls and the advancement of his kingdom? Such facts as these ought surely to increase our faith. Well might a missionary say, "I have so often felt sure that I was reaping in answer to the prayers of those far away, that on this subject my heart is full, and my first and last word to friends ...

— Woman And Her Saviour In Persia • A Returned Missionary

... want to know is," said the largest of the three, a big man with a very square face and blue eyes,—"wot I want to know is—is that there feller to go walkin' about naked?" The last word ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 • Various

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