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What does enfant terrible mean?

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Noun
  1. An unconventional badly-behaved person who causes embarrassment or shock to others.
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Known as the enfant terrible of fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier is undoubtedly one of the most important designers of recent decades.
She was an enfant terrible who didn't care what people thought.
They were the triumphal enfant terrible of the UK's post-punk, independent music scene.
Stu Ungar, who repeated as champion that year, was a coke-addled enfant terrible whose wavelength happened to be out of phase with that of the London man of letters.
Notoriously single-minded, the erstwhile enfant terrible of the Belgian art world is a Renaissance man, despite his penchant for drenching everything in body fluids.
Jérôme Bel has the reputation of an enfant terrible among those searching for the ultimate provocation.

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