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incroyable

American  
[ang-kroi-ahb-luh] / ˌæŋ krɔɪˈɑb lə /

interjection

  1. incredible; unbelievable.


noun

  • incroyables
    plural
  1. a member of a group of fashionable young men in post-Revolutionary France; a dandy or fop.

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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

Who? that incroyable whose little eyes are ferretting from one side of the road to the other, as if he saw Chouans?

From The Chouans by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

"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

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

The broad, cravat-like bows, and the flaring ones known as "incroyables," were beneficently wedge-like faces and throats that have lost the seductive curves of youth.

From What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley

A company of little ones, therefore, looked like an assemblage of Lilliputian merveilleuses and incroyables.

From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai

And, of course, all the rest of the incroyables knew it in no time.

From The Tigress by Anne Warner

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