"What brazen people!" whispered Mrs. Abijah Gross, who having removed from an interior New-England village, fully two years previously, fancied herself an fait of all the niceties of breeding and social tact.

The others are well, and Isabelle, having just returned from the metropolis of Fashion, is more than ever au fait in the usages of polite society.

Both have scars on their faces, so they will be au fait at the thing.

Adj. knowing &c v.; cognitive; acroamatic^. aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au fait with, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived.

"Say, is it considered au fait for a bride-about-to-be to do a little plugging for wedding presents this early in the game?

La vanite fait en vous ce que la charite devrait faire."

My friend Bennet, though au fait on these trips, failed to strike a fire.

Aujatz que di: Cum nos a fait per sa doussor, Lo Seignorius celestiaus Probet de nos un lavador C'ane, fors outramar, no·n' fon taus, En de lai deves Josaphas: E d'aquest de sai vos conort.

The second writing MERCY, with this device; O bene Jesu fait ta mercy, A'lame, dont la corps gisticy.

I had, however, several correspondents who kept me au fait as to the proceedings of the inhabitants of the dear little town.