Someone who’s “urbane” (ur-BANE) – from the Latin for “of a city” – is polite, polished, and elegant.
Example (as used by Robert Dallek in Flawed Giant): “The son of a famous father… Harvard-educated, handsome, charming, urbane, a northeastern aristocrat with all the advantages, JFK appeared to be everything LBJ was not.”
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