a. [Fr.; pa. pple. of blaser to exhaust by enjoyment, a modern word of unknown etymol.: see Littré, Scheler.] Exhausted by enjoyment, weary and disgusted with it; used up.
1819. Byron, Juan, XII. lxxxi. A little ‘blasé’—’tis not to be wonder’d At, that his heart had got a tougher rind.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 46. 474. Blasé, knowing airs.
1884. Lady Verney, in Contemp. Rev., Oct., 554. The somewhat blasé, artificial, conventional stage of [society] in the old world.
