Definitions
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
outré .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If it's something a bit out there, it might not place at all, simply because outre is a hard sell.
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Billboards invariably depict svelte females in outre poses.
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Billboards invariably depict svelte females in outre poses.
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For those of us with a penchant for the grisly and outre, that is very good news indeed.
"Full Dark, No Stars," four novellas by horror writer Stephen King
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The idea that his cut was not fashionable enough made him alter everything half a dozen times, walk all the way to the town simply to study the dandies, and in the end dress us in suits that even a caricaturist would have called outre and grotesque.
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One of her recipes, the Jumbleberry Grunt, sounds like some kind of outre sex act.
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But to fall in love, if indeed it were so, with a man who not only had ideas, but an inclination to live up to them, and on them, and on nothing else, seemed to Lord Dennis 'outre'.
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Twain; the imp of the burlesque, tempting him to do the 'outre', the outlandish, the shocking thing.
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If what I have here written appear nonsense to you, or common sense in a harlequinade of "outre" expressions, suspend your judgment till we see each other.
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This sounds too ridiculous and 'outre', almost, for the stage; and yet, take my word for it, you will frequently meet with it upon the common stage of the world.
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brtom commented on the word outre
Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allow’d ... Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
artoparts commented on the word outre
See: outrecuidance.
January 30, 2009