Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bête noire

Bête noire ({not transcribed})

[Fr., lit. black beast.]

Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.

Also: Bete noire

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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