Outr'e

Outr'e
Outr'e Ou`tr['e]", a. [F., p.p. of outer to exaggerate, fr. L. ultra beyond. See {Outrage}.] Out of the common course or limits; extravagant[2]; bizarre; outlandish[2]; as, an outr['e] costume.

My first mental development had in it much of the uncommon -- even much of the outr['e]. --E. A. Poe. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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