Sentence:  A little pear-grey glove, dropped and abandoned on the floor, may give its owner's sex and <WSD>chic</WSD> to the whole room; whilst an entire house-full of so-called womanly trifles will have only a neuter flavour about them, if <WSD>chic</WSD> be not there. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Good form; style.