de trop

Definition

excessive or superfluous

Etymology

From French de trop (“too much”).

Example Sentences

• "I think that wellingtons are a little de trop for a light shower."
• ""I should only be de trop," said the Captain, looking at them rather wistfully. "I'd best go and talk to the hermit,"—and so he strolled off out of the hum of men, and noise, and clatter of the banquet, into the dark walk, at the end of which lived that well-known pasteboard Solitary."