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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bête noire /beɪt ˈnwɑː, bɛt/

▶noun (pl. bêtes noires pronunc. same) (one's bête noire) a person or thing that one particularly dislikes.

– origin Fr., lit. ‘black beast’.

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