incroyable
Americaninterjection
noun
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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 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
"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
The shepherds stood back while the incroyables danced their quadrille.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
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 Jókai, Mór
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 Quigley, Dorothy
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 Everitt, Graham
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