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What (who) is outre - definition
outre
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Outre; Outre'; Outré (disambiguation); Outré (album)
Something that is outre is very unusual and strange. (FORMAL)
...outre outfits designed by students at the Royal College of Art.
ADJ
Outre
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Outre; Outre'; Outré (disambiguation); Outré (album)
·adj Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.
II. Outre ·add. ·adj Out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre; as, an outre costume.
outre
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Outre; Outre'; Outré (disambiguation); Outré (album)
['u:tre?]
¦ adjective unusual and typically rather shocking.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'exceeded', past participle of outrer (see outrage).
Examples of use of outre
1. So instead, enterprising Jews went into the kinds of businesses considered too outre or disreputable for Wasps: like nickelodeons.
2. Negative reactions from West‘s core fanbase stung him into dropping four of the album‘s more outre songs, including one that features John Mayer and a harpsichord, and replacing them with more conventional hip–hop tracks.
3. Biba‘s revival is part of a nostalgic feel to this year‘s fashion week, with outre British designer Zandra Rhodes also coming back to the catwalk for the first time in 20 years and banding together with the cosmetics brand MAC.
4. Yet no matter how outre the outfit, Gaultier claims only to have been reflecting a change that was already taking place in society‘. An early influence was the Sixties designer Andre Courreges, whom he once saw on TV.
5. They have never undergone the critical rehabilitation afforded their competitors Abba, which means their oeuvre‘s more outre aspects have been dwarfed by the memory of their two biggest hits, 1'78‘s double A–side Brown Girl in the Ring/ Rivers of Babylon and the Christmas number one Mary‘s Boy Child – still, respectively, the fifth and 10th best–selling singles in British chart history.