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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

... breath, and the last word half choked itself from his lips. He knew that Anderson was staring as hard as he. Up from the river and over the level sweep of plain between it and the timber came a sledge, followed by a second, a third, and a fourth. In the trail behind the sledges trotted a score ...

— The Golden Snare • James Oliver Curwood

... One last word about grass and how it works when green manuring. If a thick stand of grasses is tilled in during spring before seed formation begins, its high nitrogen content encourages rapid decomposition. Material containing 2 percent ...

— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... at his last word—"hate! what is that? the fitful, spitefull feeling arising out of the recollection of one miserable scene—or perhaps out of the madness of anger at a forced marriage. What is it? One kind ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... the work almost as long as you have been; you do not stand out from them by age or length of service, as I did. There will be inevitable jealousies and misunderstandings; there will be all sorts of criticism and misrepresentation. My last word to you is this: No matter what is done or is not done, how you are criticized or misunderstood, or what efforts are made to block your path, remember that the only fear you need have is the fear of not standing by the thing ...

— The Story of a Pioneer - With The Collaboration Of Elizabeth Jordan • Anna Howard Shaw

... back a moment," she began, smiling at the care with which he had chosen his last word. "Last night I fought out for myself the whole matter of your scoundrelly, cowardly treatment of my mother. You can make no reparation to her. The time passed long ago for that. And there is absolutely nothing you can do for me. ...

— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson

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