chic

1. (chiefly uncountable) Good form; style.Examples: "A little pear-grey glove, dropped and abandoned on the floor, may give its owner's sex and chic to the whole room; whilst an entire house-full of so-called womanly trifles will have only a neuter flavour about them, if chic be not there."; "You can be assured that whatever article of wearable chic you pick-up at this Newbury St. shop, you will not see it walking up and down the streets a hundred times."; "[T]he macabre, when celebrated with the panache of a new range of retailed products, became a glib manifestation of chic: […]"uncountable

2. (countable) A person with (a particular type of) chic.Examples: "It was probably fortunate for him [Bernard Lazare] that the police, who started keeping a fairly regular watch on his activities in April 1893, also inclined towards thinking that he was merely following the fashion of other young ‘bourgeois chics’ (though at times they evidently had second thoughts)."; "Striving for admission in those exclusive circles so as to gain higher social recognition and acceptance by the chics, anthropologists who were already subservient to other philosophical musings such as hermeneutics and phenomenology, started to upgrade their language and to treat cultures as "texts"."; "The potheads were either smoking or eating or giggling or some combination of the three. The heroin chics were nodding out."countable