Aug. 21st, 2012

retroussé

Aug. 21st, 2012 07:09 am
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retroussé (re-troo-SEY) - adj., turned up.


Especially of a nose, turned up at the end. Borrowed from French around 1837, from the past participle of retrousser, to tuck up, from re-, in the sense of "again" as an intensifier + trousser, to truss, tuck up, from Old French tr(o)usser, variant of torser, probably from Vulgar Latin *torsāre, derivative of *torsus from Latin tortus, past participle of torquere, to twist, wind, wrap. So, yes, that -ro- swapped places twice, a right torque-up.

---L.

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