outrée

comparative more outrée · superlative most outrée

1. Used when referring to a woman: feminine of outré.

   […] they had seen her at the Governor’s, dressed very outrée; […]

   1973, Patrick O’Brian, H.M.S. Surprise, Fontana, published 1977, page 234

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   “Really—my Lady,”—said the beau, adjusting his cravat, and following a sprightly élégante round the room, with his eye-glass—“your observation is very outrée—very outrée, indeed.[…]”

   1808, Charles Sedley, The Faro Table; or, The Gambling Mothers. A Fashionable Fable., volume I, London: […] J. Dean, […] for J. F. Hughes, […], page 141

   I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!

   1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 152

   But she could find no words to describe Isobel’s appearance, it was really so very outrée.

   1949, Angus Wilson, The Wrong Set and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, published 1950, page 23