Dictionary entry

Risqué

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ ‖Ris′qué″, a. masc., ‖Ris′quée″, a. fem. }, (�). [F., p.p. of risquer to risk.] Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.