àpropos

English

Adjective

àpropos (comparative more àpropos, superlative most àpropos)

  1. Alternative form of apropos.
    • 1871, Maurice Sand [pseudonym; Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant], translated by S[ophia] A. Da Ponte, “Mark’s Journal”, in Callirhoé. [], Philadelphia, Pa.: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, →OCLC, part I, page 49:
      Here was a chance of complimenting her daughter; but I was too stupid to find anything àpropos to say, and only knew how to insist upon my cousin’s merits and charms.

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