urbane
\ur-BEYN\
adjective
1. having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
2. reflecting elegance, sophistication, etc., especially in expression: He maintained an urbane tone in his letters.
Quotes
I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.
-- Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
Origin
Urbane entered English in the 1520s and ultimately comes from the Latin urbānus meaning "belonging to the city."
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