Crossword clues for retrousse
retrousse
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"turned up" (of the nose), 1802, from French retroussé (16c.) past participle adjective from retrousser "to turn up."
Wiktionary
a. Turned up, as in describing the nose.
WordNet
adj. (used of noses) turned up at the end; "a retrousse nose"; "a small upturned nose" [syn: tip-tilted, upturned]
Usage examples of "retrousse".
Jessie addressed herself to the intervening wedge of cartilege, that perfect, perfectly memorized, retrousse nose.
Zebbie stopped to kiss Deety's retroussé nose and added, "Sharpie, Gay can't handle the full Number of the Beast and anyhow Jake locked off most of it.
It disgusted Rachel, her theory being that it was not for cosmetic reasons these girls got operated on so much, as that the hook nose is traditionally the sign of the Jew and the retrousse nose the sign of the WASP or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant in the movies and advertisements.