retroussé
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of retroussé
1830–40; < French, past participle of retrousser, Middle French, equivalent to re- re- + trousser to turn, tuck up; see truss
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Holliday has a retroussé nose, ready-pouted lips and the sort of luxuriantly wavy, princessy auburn hair that demands the word “tresses”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2015
I've been likened to Sid the sloth from Ice Age… I have a long face, retroussé nose and have been known to be quite camp… I know I don't fit into some archetype.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
Well do I remember how his nose, which he could not, if his worthless life had depended upon it, render retroussé, grew sublimely curvilinear in its contempt, as his hawk-eyes estimated my pitiful family.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
Never had her ample head of light hair looked so large, her blue eyes so blue, her nose so retroussé, or her thin lips so thin, to Marion, as now.
From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Mrs. S. S. Robbins
Her mouth is small, mutinous, and full of laughter; her nose distinctly retroussé.
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
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