a. rare. [F. louche squinting, OF. lousche, orig. only fem.:—L. lusca, fem. of luscus one-eyed.] Oblique, not straightforward.

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1819.  Lady Morgan, Autobiog. (1859), 318. There is something louche about him, which does not accord with the abandon of careless, intimate intercourse.

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1849.  Thackeray, Pendennis, lxix. There’s something louche regarding him.

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