单词 | louche |
释义 | louche (once / 95318 pages) adj Someone with louche taste is decadent and flashy. It’s one thing to wear gold around your neck as jewelry, but louche to have all your teeth capped in the precious metal just for the heck of it. Louche is an adjective that describes something “of questionable taste or morality" but is also kind of attractive. It comes from the French louche, which also means “squinting,” and that word comes from the Latin lusca, meaning “one-eyed.” Imagine a louche pirate with an eye patch that you just can't turn away from. It's pronounced like a little kid trying to say "loose," like "loosh." You can also use louche in place of words like decadent, shady, and sinister. WORD FAMILYlouche USAGE EXAMPLESThe clothes, with their drop-waists, louche sequins and nubbly, dressmaker tweeds, recalled the era when F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald held court in the bar. The Guardian(Dec 06, 2016) The name is taken from the Droogs of A Clockwork Orange – young men, known for their louche and stylish violence. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) A couple of years ago he made The Canyons, a film set in the louche backwaters of LA, where sex is a communal activity. The Guardian(Nov 13, 2016) adj of questionable taste or morality a louche nightclub a louche painting Syn shady disreputable lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance |
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