Hypertext Webster Gateway: "outre"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Outr'e \Ou`tr['e]"\, a. [F., p.p. of outer to exaggerate, fr. L.
ultra beyond. See {Outrage}.]
Out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre; as,
an outr['e] costume.
My first mental development had in it much of the
uncommon -- even much of the outr['e]. --E. A. Poe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Outr'e \Ou`tr['e]"\, a. [F., p. p. of outrer to exaggerate, fr.
L. ultra beyond. See {Outrage}.]
Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant;
bizarre.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
outre
adj : conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another
like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a
freakish combination of styles"; "the outlandish
clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage
antics" [syn: {bizarre}, {eccentric}, {freakish}, {freaky},
{flaky}, {outlandish}]
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