sans
preposition/sænz/
/sænz/
(from French, literary or humorous)- without
- There were no potatoes so we had fish and chips sans the chips.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sanz, from a variant of Latin sine ‘without’, influenced by Latin absentia ‘in the absence of’.Want to learn more?
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