FAROUCHE Definition & Meaning

farouche

[ fa-roosh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

French.

fierce.
sullenly unsociable or shy.

farouche

/ �ڲ��ʃ /

adjective

sullen or shy
socially inept

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of farouche¹

First recorded in 1760–70; from French, from Old French faro(u)che, forasche; further origin uncertain; perhaps from Late Latin �ڴǰ��پ��ܲ� “belonging outside or out of doors” (i.e., not fit to be inside), a derivative of the adverb and preposition �ڴǰ�� (also �ڴǰ�ī�� ) “(to the) outside, abroad”; door ( def ); savage ( def ) for similar semantic development

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of farouche¹

C18: from French, from Old French faroche , from Late Latin forasticus from without, from Latin foras out of doors

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Clinch’s Marley is one of the great farouche characters, at once frightening and dangerously attractive.

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Guileless, farouche, wholly uninhibited in her reading of Marston's choreography, she projects a reach-out-and-touch-me naturalness that compels both pity and wonder.

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But nowadays the truly farouche is but a curl of wood smoke in a hacked about forest clearing: soon it will be dispersed forever by the gritty wind of civilisation.

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She grows up farouche and ungovernable and, on her 16th birthday, sneaks out for a rendezvous with the royal gamekeeper, Leo.

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Their love was discovered and the count had the page lashed to a wild horse—un cheval farouche, as Voltaire has it—which was turned loose.

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