English

steez

Blend of style + ease, respelled phonetically.

A blend of style + ease

Latin stilus ‘a stake’

Medieval Latin stylus

Middle English stile ‘writing tool’

English style

Old French eise ‘elbow room; opportunity’

Anglo-Norman ese ‘ease’

Middle English ese

English ease

The story

Blend of style + ease, respelled phonetically.

noun Style; panache.

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