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English
Adjective
outrée (comparative more outrée, superlative most outrée)
- Alternative form of outré.
1808, Charles Sedley, The Faro Table; or, The Gambling Mothers. A Fashionable Fable., volume I, London: J. Dean, for J. F. Hughes, , page 141:“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. […]”
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: , volume II, London: for John Murray, →OCLC, page 152: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!
Usage notes
- Used in reference to women.
French
Adjective
outrée
- feminine singular of outré