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suave
c.1501, "gracious, kindly," from M.Fr.
suave,
from L.
suavis
"agreeable," from PIE base
*swad-
(see
sweet
). In ref. to persons, sense of "smoothly agreeable" first recorded 1815 (in
suavity
).
