I think you're right, R_M!
Many dictionaries list
sans, meaning "without", variously described as "archaic", "literary" and/or "jocular". The best-known literary use is probably in Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage", in
As You Like It:
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
This is only one of 12 occasions when Shakespeare used the word.
Many dictionaries give an anglicised pronunciation, rhyming with
pans, surely a sign that the word has been assimilated into English.
Actually, the reason it's not in our list already is that it was picked up as a plural. There is a word
san, with various meanings, including a colloquial term for a sanatorium. But I don't think this fairly rare word should rule out
sans - it seems to be used for "without" much more frequently than as the plural of
san.
