Incroyable

The Incroyable was a person of almost magical perceptiveness; he felt the let-down immediately and feared a failure.

The Two Vanrevels Booth Tarkington 1907

Marguerite Blakeney on his arm; and on his left Sir Percy, in gorgeous shimmering cream satin, cut in the extravagant "Incroyable" style, his fair hair free from powder, priceless lace at his neck and wrists, and the flat CHAPEAU-BRAS under his arm.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

He was always irreproachable dressed, and wore the exaggerated "Incroyable" fashions, which had just crept across from Paris to England, with the perfect good taste innate in an English gentleman.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

The Prince of Wales, dressed in a magnificent court suit of salmon-coloured velvet richly embroidered with gold, entered with Marguerite Blakeney on his arm; and on his left Sir Percy, in gorgeous shimmering cream satin, cut in the extravagant "Incroyable" style, his fair hair free from powder, priceless lace at his neck and wrists, and the flat CHAPEAU-BRAS under his arm.

The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

He was always irreproachable dressed, and wore the exaggerated "Incroyable" fashions, which had just crept across from Paris to England, with the perfect good taste innate in an English gentleman.

The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

The-most-beautiful-lady-in-the-ship was -- upon my word, I don't know what her dress was called, something of the "Incroyable" period; whatever it was called, she carried it well and could walk, the rest merely toddled.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

In ten minutes, breathless, she had reached the corset department, demanded an 'Incroyable' of the correct size, and bought it.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

Lily, whose manifold misfortunes had not quenched her interest in the 'Incroyable' corset, opened her parcel, and found that the corset was not an 'Incroyable' at all, but an inferior substitute, with no proper belted band, and of a shape to startle even a Brighton bathing-woman!

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

Further indiscretions of description are not necessary to show that eighteen and nine is the lowest price at which a reasonable creature could hope to obtain the 'Incroyable' corset.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

And there was the famous 'Incroyable' corset, white coutille, with wide belted band round hips, double belt to buckle at sides, cut low -- 'Enough!

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899