outré

French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”).

• IPA^(key): /uˈtɹeɪ/

outré (comparative more outré, superlative most outré)

1. Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 8:

     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!

2. Very unconventional.
   • 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261,

     To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.

• (unconventional): bizarre, eccentric, outlandish

• Toure, outer, rouet, route, utero-

• IPA^(key): /u.tʁe/

outré (feminine singular outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)

1. excessive
2. outrageous

outré m (feminine singular outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)

1. past participle of outrer

• “outré” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• route, routé, troue, troué