All 3 Uses of
tout
in
And The Mountains Echoed
- NW: What I can tell you, however, is that no one was touting me in Kabul.†
Chpt 6 *
- It's a staple of the military's casualty notification teams knocking on doors, lawyers touting the merits of plea deals to clients, policemen stopping cars at 3 A.M., cheating husbands.†
Chpt 8
- I leave the decision to tout or not to others.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(tout) to publicly praise or promote something -- especially to convince others to buy or believe
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, tout can refer to a person who sells aggressively -- especially advice about horse races. Even more rarely, the expression le tout can refer to "high society" or "people of importance".