Today's Word "largess"
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largess \lar-ZHES; lar-JES; LAR-jes\ (noun) - 1 : Generous giving (as of gifts or money), often accompanied by condescension. 2 : Gifts, money, or other valuables so given. 3 : Generosity; liberality.
""If I was a princess -- a real princess," she murmured, "I could scatter largess to the populace." -- Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'A Little Princess'
Largess is from Old French largesse, "largeness, generosity," from large, from Latin largus, "plentiful, generous."
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