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je ne sais quoi

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
je ne sais quoi /ˌʒə nə seɪ ˈkwɑː/

▶noun a quality that cannot be easily identified.

– origin Fr., lit. ‘I do not know what’.

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