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Definition of "retroussé" []

  • (used of noses) turned up at the end (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "retroussé" in a sentence
  • "She wasn't handsome, but she certainly was pretty, even though her nose was retrousse, which is French for pug."
  • "Miss Anderson, who claimed a collateral Dutch ancestry by the Van Hook, tucked in between her non-committal family name and the Julia given her in christening, was of the ordinary slender make of American girlhood, with dull blond hair, and a dull blond complexion, which would have left her face uninteresting if it had not been for the caprice of her nose in suddenly changing from the ordinary American regularity, after getting over its bridge, and turning out distinctly 'retrousse'."
  • "She was twenty-four years old and pretty, with wide blue eyes, a retrousse nose and a gently curving mouth; she wore her bright blonde hair -- the envy of her friends -- in a complicated knot on top of her head, and her person was small, so that she looked extremely fragile."
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