aplomb


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aplomb /əˈplɒm/
noun self-confidence or assurance.
– origin C18 (in the sense ‘perpendicularity, steadiness’): from Fr., from à plomb ‘according to a plummet’.
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