incroyable
Americaninterjection
noun
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incroyables
plural
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His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
Dembélé takes a tumble cutting from the left, and both he and Deschamps find it incroyable that there was no foul there.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2018
Then the designer pointed to a mannequin dressed as an incroyable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2016
But the notion that Kerry, of all people, was slighting the French is a bit incroyable.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2015
You will be insisting next that an incroyable is a Greek, or that creature, that sort of Italian bandit who gave the disgusting roar, is a French marquis....
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
"I've studied this period — my graduation collection was inspired by the incroyables, the sans-culottes, the French Revolution. "
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2016
On this fateful evening the incroyables and the merveilleuses were amusing themselves within the walls of the Palace of Narcissus.
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
There were the incroyables, a set of young dandies who affected royalist sympathies, and paraded the streets of Paris when young Napoleon was yet a general in the service of the Directory.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt
A company of little ones, therefore, looked like an assemblage of Lilliputian merveilleuses and incroyables.
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
When the incroyables came in there was a murmur of admiration.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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