Both Uses of
tout
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- The ship passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide.†
p. 4.4
- Periodically, a new golden boy would be touted as the one who would take him down, only to be run off his feet.†
p. 19.7 *
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".