What is the meaning of sans in Shakespearean language?

Answer 1

This is from the famous "All the world's a stage" speech in As you Like It.

Jaques sets out the seven ages of man - the final, old age "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything" Sans means "without"; it is a French word.

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful Ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Answer 2

"Sans" is not a word in Shakespeare's language, which was modern English, the same one we are using now. It is a word in French, and means "without". That is what it means when Jaques (did you notice that his name is French?) uses it in As You Like It: "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything"

Answer 3

"Sans" means "without" in French. Shakespeare uses it in As You Like It: "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".
It's the French word for without.

Answer 4

French word meaning 'without'.

Answer 5

as you like it