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Definition of sans preposition from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sans

preposition
 
/sænz/
 
/sænz/
(from French, literary or humorous)
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  1. without
    • There were no potatoes so we had fish and chips sans the chips.
    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sanz, from a variant of Latin sine ‘without’, influenced by Latin absentia ‘in the absence of’.
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