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‖ incroyable|ɛ̃krwajabl|
[F. incroyable incredible, f. in- (in-3) + croi-re, croy-ant to believe (:—L. crēdĕre) + -able (see -ble).]
A contemporary name for the French fop or dandy of the period of the Directory.
The term seems to have originated in 1795; acc. to Littré, it had reference not only to the extravagant dress of the fops, but also to their frequent use of the phrase ‘C'est vraiment incroyable’.
1797H. Swinburne Let. in Crts. Eur. close last Cent. (1841) II. 181 The men were clean, many in English dresses, but there were also a good many extravagants, or incroyables. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ix, Wert thou not, at one period of life, a Buck, or Blood, or Macaroni, or Incroyable, or Dandy, or by whatever name..such phenomenon is distinguished? 1887Westm. Rev. Nov. 947 The republican young man of fashion, the incroyable. |