Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Insouciance

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Insouciance: noun - lack of concern, carefreeness.
'Gerald sauntered alongthe coast with an air of insouciance that spoke volumes for his ability to buryeven the most pressing of problems beneath a cloak of indifference to his realcircumstances. That he was in debt to the tune of several thousand pound, hiswife had left him for a more reliable and more attractive man, and his shoeswere letting in the sea water, seemed of little or no consequence to him.'
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sailedfrom England to circumnavigate the world1843 - "A ChristmasCarol" by Charles Dickens  was first published, selling 6,000 copies.