Meanings
comparative more de trop · superlative most de trop
- excessive or superfluous
I think that wellingtons are a little de trop for a light shower.
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"I should only be de trop," said the Captain, looking at them rather wistfully. "I'd best go and talk to the hermit,"—and so he strolled off out of the hum of men, and noise, and clatter of the banquet, into the dark walk, at the end of which lived that well-known pasteboard Solitary.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frenchde trop“too much”
- Englishde trop
From French de trop (“too much”).
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