louche
[loosh]
- dubious; shady; disreputable.
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Origin of louche
1810–20; < French: literally, cross-eyed; Old French losche, feminine of lois < Latin luscus blind in one eye
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Contemporary Examples
From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note.
Both vaporiums I visited included areas to hang out it, like the louche opium dens of old.
Akkari and Laban had long been disaffected with life in Denmark, a country they saw as louche and irreligious.
His louche take on style calls to mind the aftermath of a night spent clubbing or a pre-dawn, hung-over, walk of shame.
Eventually, this short, louche novel that began with warmth and zest and cheekiness, wanders around aimlessly in magenta caftans.
Historical Examples
M. de Montrond talks of returning to Louche to put his poor body in a bath.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835Dorothy Duchesse de Dino
louche
- shifty or disreputable
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Word Origin
C19: from French, literally: squinting
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Word Origin and History for louche
adj.
"dubious, disreputable," 1819, from French louche "squinting," from Old French lousche, lois (12c.) "cross-eyed, squint-eyed, lop-sided," from Latin lusca, fem. of luscus "one-eyed," of unknown origin.
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