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outrée

outrée adjective: used when referring to a woman: feminine of outré.

Adjective

outrée (comparative more outrée, superlative most outrée)

  1. Used when referring to a woman: feminine of outré.
    • “Really—my Lady,”—said the beau, adjusting his cravat, and following a sprightly élégante round the room, with his eye-glass—“your observation is very outrée—very outrée, indeed.[…]”1808, Charles Sedley, The Faro Table; or, The Gambling Mothers. A Fashionable Fable., volume I, London: […] J. Dean, […] for J. F. Hughes, […], page 141
    • I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 152

Examples of outrée in a sentence

  • But she could find no words to describe Isobel’s appearance, it was really so very outrée.1949, Angus Wilson, The Wrong Set and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, published 1950, page 23:
  • […] they had seen her at the Governor’s, dressed very outrée; […]1973, Patrick O’Brian, H.M.S. Surprise, Fontana, published 1977, page 234:

Forms of outrée

comparativemore outrée
superlativemost outrée

Origin of outrée

From French outrée.

Questions about outrée

What does outrée mean?
Outrée means used when referring to a woman: feminine of outré.
How do you use outrée in a sentence?
But she could find no words to describe Isobel’s appearance, it was really so very outrée.
What part of speech is outrée?
Outrée is an adjective.

Words near outrée in the dictionary

  1. outrush
  2. outrushed
  3. outrushes
  4. outrushing
  5. outré
  6. outrée
  7. outréness
  8. outs
  9. outsail
  10. outsailed
  11. outsailing

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