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Exposé (French)

An exposing of something which should have been kept out of sight. Thus we say a man made a dreadful exposé—i.e. told or did something which should have been kept concealed.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.