Bête noire
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Bête noire (French for black beast) may refer to:
bete noire \bet-NWAHR\, noun: Something or someone particularly detested or avoided; a bugbear.
Examples:
- Even more regrettable, as far as Dame Edna is concerned, is the presence of her old bete noire, the extravagantly disgusting Sir Les Patterson. -- "The Dame's New Man", Daily Telegraph, April 18, 1998
- Never an exceptional student, Andrews somehow managed to navigate the academy's rigorous courses with satisfactory grades, though all forms of mathematics were agonizing to him, remaining what he called his "bete noire" throughout life. -- Charles Gallenkamp, Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions
Minor and unimportant references may include:
- Bête Noire, an album by British singer Bryan Ferry, released on Virgin Records in November 1987
- Bête noire (cake), a rich flourless chocolate cake
- Bête noire, a pet peeve or pet hate
- "Bête Noire", an episode from the television series NCIS
- Bete Noire, the city in which the comic book series Fallen Angel takes place
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