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Tout

noun

Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit. Synonym: ticket tout.

Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way. Synonym: touter.

One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack). Synonym: tipster.

verb

(past & past part. touted; pres. part. touting)

Advertize in strongly positive terms.

Show off. Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt.

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"Tout" Quotes from Famous Books

... well to see you married. Truly we women must marry, or be nothing at all. But as to marrying for love, as we used to think of, and as charming poets make believe—my dear, now-a-days, nous avons change tout cela." ...

— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... leur epais brouillard: tantot un torrent eternel ouvroit a mes cotes un abime dont les yeux n'osoient sonder la profondeur. Quelquefois je me perdois dans l'obscurite d'un bois touffu. Quelquefois, en sortant d'un gouffre, une agreable prairie, rejouissoit tout-a-coup mes regards. Un melange etonnant de la nature sauvage et de la nature cultivee, montroit partout la main des hommes, ou l'on eut cru qu'ils n'avoient jamais penetre: a cote d'une caverne on trouvoit des maisons; ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... among douce and sponsible fowk. So I'll vow that the wine of a witch's cup is as fell liquor as ever did a kindly turn to a poor man's heart; and be they fiends, or be they witches, if they have red wine asteer, I'll risk a drouket sark for ae glorious tout on't." ...

— Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland • Anonymous

... l'organisation'. 'L'election naturelle' est cette 'forme substantielle' dont on jouait autrefois avec tant de facilite. Aristote disait que 'Si l'art de batir etait dans le bois, cet art agirait comme la nature.' A la place de 'l'art de batir' M. Darwin met 'l'election naturelle', et c'est tout un: l'un n'est pas plus ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... thickly over his face and shoulders. This, surmounted by a round slouched hat, ornamented with an eagle's feather, which he ordinarily wore and had not even now dispensed with, added to a blue capote or hunting frock, produced a tout ensemble, which cannot be more happily rendered than by a comparison with one of his puritanical sly-eyed namesakes of the ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

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