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‖ louche, a.|luʃ|
[F. louche squinting, OF. lousche, orig. only fem.:—L. lusca, fem. of luscus one-eyed.]
Oblique, not straightforward. Also, dubious, shifty, disreputable.
1819Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 318 There is some⁓thing louche about him, which does not accord with the abandon of careless, intimate intercourse. 1849Thackeray Pendennis lxix, There's something louche regarding him. 1873G. H. Lewes Diary 16 Jan. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) V. 368 The whole thing appeared louche and unpromising. 1905G. B. Shaw Lett. to G. Barker (1956) 53 You could play Snobby. I want a slim, louche, servant-girl-bigamist, half-handsome sort of rascal. 1921A. Huxley Crome Yellow xvii. 182 There had seemed to be something a little louche in the way she had suddenly found herself alone with Ivor. 1945Auden Sea & Mirror ii. 46 A quick cold clasp now and then in some louche hovel. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 236, I knew of a louche little bar quite near here. 1959P. H. Johnson Humbler Creation xlviii. 328 As if he were an unfrocked priest due for reception into the world of the louche and the lost. 1970Times Mar. (Saturday Suppl.) p. iv/6 There is plenty of marvellous delicate comedy and superbly louche menace. 1974Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 14 June 30/4 His louche greeting, ‘Ladeez and Gentlemen’ was a byword among..BBC Light Programme listeners. |