sangfroid

• sang-froid
• sang froid

Borrowed from French sang-froid, from sang (“blood”) + froid (“cold”)

• IPA^(key): /sɑŋˈfɹɑ/

sangfroid (usually uncountable, plural sangfroids)

1. Composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation.
   • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

   He handled the stressful situation with great sangfroid.

• poise
• aplomb
• unflappability

• sanguine