She wasn't handsome, but she certainly was pretty, even though her nose was retrousse, which is French for pug. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
Miss Anderson, who claimed a collateral Dutch ancestry by the Van Hook, tucked in between her non-committal family name and the Julia given her in christening, was of the ordinary slender make of American girlhood, with dull blond hair, and a dull blond complexion, which would have left her face uninteresting if it had not been for the caprice of her nose in suddenly changing from the ordinary American regularity, after getting over its bridge, and turning out distinctly 'retrousse'. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
She was twenty-four years old and pretty, with wide blue eyes, a retrousse nose and a gently curving mouth; she wore her bright blonde hair -- the envy of her friends -- in a complicated knot on top of her head, and her person was small, so that she looked extremely fragile. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Obama is a stuffed-shirt, retrousse-nosed, po 'boy, the worst kind of elitist! ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nose jobs have really come down in price, nowadays, and Brunette could be stunning with one of those cute retrousse noses. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
You cannot tell whether her nose was aquiline or retrousse, whether her chin was long or short, her face square or oval; nor could I the first day, and it is not my intention to communicate to you at once a knowledge I myself gained by little and little. ❋ Unknown (2006)
His nose was short and retrousse, and his ears were rather prominent; but he was bright and attractive. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Yet with him he had brought neither wallet nor gripsack, and somehow his supercilious, retrousse upper lip and thickly fringed eyes irritated me, and inclined me to be suspicious of, and even actively to dislike, the man. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Two sons, one of whom was already in the service, and a good-looking, sixteen-year-old daughter, with a rather retrousse but pretty little nose, came every morning to kiss his hand and say, “Bonjour, papa.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
She slid onto the stool in front of the dressing table, dipped some rice paper in a jar of powder, and dabbed at her fashionably retrousse nose. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- (2003)
She had a small tip-tilted nose and an upper lip ever so slightly retrousse. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1998)
His large brown eyes were wide-spaced, the upper lids heavy, above a retrousse nose and a cleft chin. ❋ James, P. D. (1988)
Malcolm's personal alibi for Moira's death had been as unassailable as my own, as he'd been in Paris for the day when someone had pushed Moira's retrousse little nose into a bag of potting compost and held it there until it was certain she would take no more geranium cuttings. ❋ Francis, Dick (1987)
When in the land there was born at some time in the afternoon a perfectly normal cat or pig with no birth complications at all, or even just a child with a retrousse nose, that too would often be taken as a sign. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 (1982)
The face was slightly Slavonic, the cheekbones too high and wide, the mouth too full, the still grey eyes set too far apart and the nose definitely retrousse. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
He was bull-necked and bandy-legged; his chest was broad and deep, his head large and uncommonly thick, his eyes a little bloodshot, and his nose _retrousse_ with a remarkably red tip. ❋ Various (N/A)
A make-believe actor, he puts on airs, and in the three minutes that he has been in the room he has looked at his retrousse nose and his coarse face, made to be seen from a distance, ten times in the mirror. ❋ Various (N/A)
He had successfully fought the powers of Rome; the queenly daughter of Henry the Eighth, and Anne Boleyn had found him incorrigible and given him up as a hopeless case; Calvin could not tame him; but now a chit of a girl with retrousse nose, who should have been at work in a paper-box factory, led him a merry dance, and the voice that had thundered threat and defiance piped in forced assent. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
Their fair hair, lovely brown eyes, and piquant little retrousse noses were a joy to watch. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Her tits were shaped retrousse, with a [gentle] [slope] and upward [pointing] nipples. ❋ SlyderTheGreat (2023)
