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moue

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4 lettersPronunciation /muː/Part of speech nounSorted emouStarts with MEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a disdainful grimace

Word origin

Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Doublet of mow ("grimace").

Used in a sentence

  • [S]he looked at her face and made a moue in the glass; and never stopped for Laura’s answer to the questions which she had put.
  • She glanced aside to the rim of the looking-glass where his photograph was wedged, shuddered, and made a moue of distaste.
  • Why do you wear European clothes?" fumed Oscar de la Renta with a moue of disapproval and stamp of his bejewelled foot (probably).

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