bête rouge
English
Noun
bête rouge (plural bêtes rouges)
- A mite of the genus Trombidium.
- 1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust:
- He had picked up bêtes rouges in the bush and they were crawling and burrowing under his skin.
- 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva 1995, p. 137:
- ‘The rashes on his legs and arms are bêtes rouges, and we can get rid of them with ammonia and zinc ointment.’
- 1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust: