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Definition of Gaucherie

1. Noun. The quality of being rustic or gauche.

Definition of Gaucherie

1. n. An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

Definition of Gaucherie

1. Noun. A socially tactless or awkward act. ¹

2. Noun. Lack of tact; tactlessness; awkwardness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gaucherie

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaucherie

Literary usage of Gaucherie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... their gaucherie and contracted notions, their vulgarity and extravagance, their conceit and ... gaucherie ..."

2. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Heft handed man—woman; one gaucherie, sf lia toute la gaucherie d'un nouveau ... Cet homme fait toujours quelque gaucherie, that man i» ever committing some ..."

3. A Popular Commentary on the New Testament: By English and American Scholars by Philip Schaff (1890)
"Alford indeed remarks on the gaucherie of the «Tiler in concealing his name, and yet telling them substantially who he was, and concludes that Paul would ..."

4. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1900)
"There is a cynical doctrine that most men would rather be accused of wickedness than of gaucherie. And this is but another way of saying that the bad ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... and the other cities we have named, to trace the steps by which this art passed out of archaic constraint and gaucherie into noble simplicity and grace. ..."

6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... their gaucherie and contracted notions, their vulgarity and extravagance, their conceit and ... gaucherie ..."

7. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Heft handed man—woman; one gaucherie, sf lia toute la gaucherie d'un nouveau ... Cet homme fait toujours quelque gaucherie, that man i» ever committing some ..."

8. A Popular Commentary on the New Testament: By English and American Scholars by Philip Schaff (1890)
"Alford indeed remarks on the gaucherie of the «Tiler in concealing his name, and yet telling them substantially who he was, and concludes that Paul would ..."

9. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1900)
"There is a cynical doctrine that most men would rather be accused of wickedness than of gaucherie. And this is but another way of saying that the bad ..."

10. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... and the other cities we have named, to trace the steps by which this art passed out of archaic constraint and gaucherie into noble simplicity and grace. ..."

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