How to Use louche in a Sentence

louche

adjective

• Kalman looked smart by her side in a summer shirt, louche trousers and Doc Martens Derby shoes.
  — Alice Cary, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2022
• There is potential here for camp, for glamour, for something louche and nasty and over-the-top.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• This louche, beautiful Art Deco brasserie, dating from 1927, used to be one of my first stops in Paris.
  — WSJ, 14 June 2021
• Tannhäuser, no longer louche but styled with a shaved head and dressed in baggy black, comes across as a sad sack hanging out at the piano.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• So was the creator of these images a louche outsider, a kind of Mannerist Tom of Holland?
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
• Their house had been the absolute crossroads of thrilling louche Hollywood and the crackling world of ideas that was pouring in from the East.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• These likable, louche fellows encourage Gordy to loosen up, have some fun.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• In spite of its smaller size, Kahlo’s painting seems to outglow Rivera’s fun, louche landscape portrait.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
• From the 1960s through the aughts, this American’s louche designs propelled the idea that an outfit should compliment the woman—not the other way around.
  — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• His louche slouch, the gold chains at his neck and wrist, the chest hair and, most of all, the hand draped casually over his crotch — there’s no mistaking the subject of this novel, which is desire.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Suits are cut with louche, wide-legged trousers; rakish field jackets often stand in for traditional sport coats.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2021
• The coat-and-scarf combo, by contrast, appeared to take its cues from ‘70s fashion, projecting a polished yet louche quality.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 6 July 2017
• This tendency towards a kind of louche, showy entitlement did not begin with the drama.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The louche clothes, the wood-and-wallpaper decor, the soundtrack, the getting-high-and-angling-for-a-threesome hedonism all looked very Boogie Nights/American Hustle.
  — Rose Maura Lorre, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• Flashbacks of drug and alcohol abuse, a louche courtship, and big financial secrets come and go throughout the show, as the story reassesses the part that sexism played in the way the duchess was perceived and treated.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• Strangers were discouraged from visiting, and rumors spread of louche parties behind the castle’s walls.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• Or, by another name — a name that sounds satisfyingly louche — strip malls.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• While people of a certain age — like me — might have visions of Club Med as a louche escape for swingers, these days the company is focused on the upscale family market.
  — Amy Virshup, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
• Lawrence owns the louche Morton and Christie styles, as well as plenty of quietly luxurious accessories from the label.
  — Alice Cary, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2022
• Spliced together with traditional menswear prints like tartan and repp stripes, the antique patterns take on new life in a range of louche silk shirts, trousers and double-face scarves as well as robes and blankets.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2021
• With a louche silhouette, a bootiful backside and river-stone smoothness, the 230i Coupe is affordably gorgeous—enough but not too much, swag wise.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• The half-underwater twang recalls a strain of Vietnamese rock from the 1960s that took the surf music of Southern California and turned it into something louche and primal.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• Their retro suggestiveness is colored by our perception of the early ’70s as a uniquely louche and glamorous time, a compelling contrast to our own more scripted era.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 22 June 2022
• Under the leadership of the indomitable Cristabel, and with scenery devised by a louche Russian painter, the children put on theatrical productions staged in a whalebone structure.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• Forget that dated, louche image of Amsterdam as the capital of stoners and winking red lights.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2018
• Thrones’ vast number of clans includes the wealthy and louche Lannisters, including incestuous twins Cersei and Jaime.
  — TIME.com, 30 June 2017
• Since the early 1800s, when rich, high-ranking Ottoman officials known as pashas were said to have used their houseboats to rendezvous with their mistresses, the boats have radiated a kind of louche, half-light glamour.
  — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
• The primal parenting stuff is all in there, but so are louche tales of benzo beauty queens and bodega roses, filtered through the wah-wah guitar haze and slithering disco-funk of a lost '70s AM-radio transmission.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 June 2021
• Follow his lead with tactile cords in a louche, unstructured silhouette that’s more style-savvy than professorial.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2021
• The reason that the wing is temporarily nameless is Goldin, who is known for her louche countercultural photography.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024