farouche

• Georgians from 'Georgia proper', accustomed to spending their holidays on Abkhazia's subtropical shores, had come to regard the place as a slightly farouche but much loved province of their own country. —  London Review of Books
• Mirabeau (who was to be the father of the famous orator) was a man of talent, but violent, chimerical and lawless, "farouche," as he himself put it. —  Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
• The "farouche" darkness, so dear to the pen of Victor Hugo, surrounded them on all sides In the meantime they talked about this interminable night, 354 hours, or nearly 15 days, long, which physical laws have imposed upon the inhabitants of the moon. —  The Moon-Voyage
• "Dear Princess," he said, "you did not tell me that she was so very farouche, so very shy indeed. —  Jeanne of the Marshes
• She has been very farouche with me for a long time; and is only just beginning to thaw a little from her Zenobia ways. —  North and South

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