Meaning of outrée | Babel Free

Definitions

Used when referring to a woman: feminine of outré.

Equivalents

Examples

““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.[…]””

“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!”

“But she could find no words to describe Isobel’s appearance, it was really so very outrée.”

“[…] they had seen her at the Governor’s, dressed very outrée; […]”

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