risquée

English

Etymology

From French risquée.

Adjective

risquée (comparative more risquée, superlative most risquée)

1. Alternative form of risqué
2. (rare) feminine of risqué
   • 1913, Stopford A[ugustus] Brooke, “Much Ado About Nothing”, in Ten More Plays of Shakespeare, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 8:

     Therefore he placed along with this couple who had become one, Margaret, the gamesome lady’s-maid, who is risquée in her talk with her mistress, and has Borachio as a lover—so anxious is Shakespeare for variety of character and of life.

   • 1927, Vicente Blasco Ibañez, translated by Arthur Livingston, “Two Women Scold a Pope”, in The Pope of the Sea: An Historical Medley, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, […], part one (The City of the Three Keys), page 119:

     The housewives of Siena could not believe that such a woman could be very important in the world; but beyond the limits of her native town, in Florence, in Rome, Catherine was already famous for her gifts of prophecy. A woman of strong will, rough and risquée of speech, she declared herself appointed of God to achieve the great purpose of her time—the return of the Holy See to Rome.

   • 1943 April 10, Dorothy Kilgallen, “The Magic Moniker”, in Collier’s, volume 111, number 15, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 51, column 1:

     Fashion magazines and advertising photographers usually cast her in tweeds, but she prefers long slinky dresses slit to the knee and black lace stockings. “I figure I might as well be gay and risquée while I can,” she says, with a little tremor in her boyish voice. “I’ll be old soon.”

   • 2004, Page Bryant, “A Time for Amulet Making”, in The Second Coming of the Star Gods: A Visionary Novel, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN:

     There was something about Klea that made her different from any other woman Khem and Tiye had met at the Temple. Younger than Taret or Ani, she was more bold and risquée. They sensed that beneath her lighthearted facade was a strong-willed, self-confident initiate who could not be fooled or intimidated.

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

risquée f sg

1. feminine singular of risqué

Adjective

risquée

1. feminine singular of risqué

Further reading

• “risquée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• quières
• requise