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Brio vs Panache - What's the difference?

brio | panache |

As nouns the difference between brio and panache

is that brio is vigour; mettle; zest; zeal while panache is shandy (mix of beer and lemonade).

As a verb panache is

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As an adjective panache is

mixed, variegated.

brio

English

Noun

  • Vigour or vivacity.
  • *1917 , Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix ,
  • *:He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio .
  • Anagrams

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    panache

    Noun

  • (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
  • * 1896 — , Chapter 4
  • I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
  • (uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
  • * 1894
  • One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.

    Synonyms

    * (ornament on a helmet) hackle, plume, plumage * (flamboyant style) dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve