Meaning & use
Incroyable
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A fashionable young man in France during the Directory period (1795 to 1799) known for extravagant, exaggerated dress.
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The incroyable strolled through Paris in an oversized cravat and exaggerated coat.
Caricatures of the era mocked the incroyable's absurdly foppish style.
A note on using this word
"Incroyable" is French for "incredible," ironically adopted as the label for these ostentatiously dressed dandies of revolutionary-era France.
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