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‖ outré, a. (n.)|utre|
[F. outré, pa. pple. of outrer to go beyond limits, to push to excess.]
A. adj. Beyond the bounds of what is usual or considered correct and proper; unusual, eccentric, out-of-the-way; exaggerated.
1722Richardson Statues Italy 191 The Sword comes above a Yard through her Body; the Expression is some⁓thing Savage, and Outré. 1742Fielding J. Andrews Pref., A judicious eye instantly rejects anything outré. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest vii, In these solitary woods it is quite outre. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 66 Some of them are extravagant and outré. a1859De Quincey Conversation Wks. 1860 XIV. 169 He will talk upon outré subjects. 1883C. M. Yonge Stray Pearls I. iv. 42 Madame de Port Royal..is..suspected of being outrée in her devotion. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 304 He will adopt a more eclectic and less outré manner. 1961J. McCabe Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy (1962) vii. 139 Physical humour was becoming outré. 1975L. Farago Aftermath xix. 320 The prosecution of criminal Nazis is coming to be widely regarded as a kind of séance in which the spirits of another era are conjured up by some outré hocus-pocus. 1975Times 20 Sept. 6/2 Poirot..was the Englishman's notion of the comic foreigner, outré as everybody knew foreigners to be.
†B. as n. That which is extravagant or fantastic. Obs.
1759Goldsm. Polite Learn. x, To exhibit the ridiculous outré of a harlequin under the sanction of that venerable name. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 53 A sumptuous outré of terms, and new cut of phrase. |