I LOOKED up the word “cool” online. I wanted a precise definition. The third definition was the one I was after:
cool (adjective)
INFORMAL
fashionably attractive or impressive.
This seemed fairly nebulous to me. Fashionable? What’s that got to do with it? I didn’t like that definition, so I dragged out my old Chambers 20th Century Dictionary, New Edition 1…
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