jolie laide
/ˌʒɒlɪ ˈlɛd
/noun (plural jolies laides pronounced same)
A woman whose face is attractive despite having ugly features.But though she may look the part of une jolie laide, rail-thin in all black and tortoiseshell shades, smoothing over her vowels as she drops French names, Feist is wary of ascribing too much Gallic flavour to Let it Die....
- More likely it was the jolie laide factor - the beautiful - ugly thing that made them so appealing to me.
- Like her, the private clients who exemplified her ‘hard chic’ look were often jolies laides.
Origin
French, from jolie 'pretty' and laide 'ugly', feminine adjectives.
- as and when
- a sandwich (or two sandwiches) short of a picnic
- Asansol
- Asante
- ASAP
- asarabacca
- as artful (or clever) as a wagonload (or cartload) of monkeys
- as a rule
- Asatru
- as Australian as meat pie
- as a whole
- ASB
- (as) bald as a coot
- asbestine
- as best one can (or may)
- asbestos
- asbestosis
- (as) black as soot
- (as) blind as a bat
- ASBO
- (as) bold as brass
- (as) bright as a button
- (as) brown as a berry
- index futures
- indexible