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1
something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason
- doing my own tax return is the bête noire that haunts me every April
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2
something or someone that is hated
- in that organization's view, society's number one bête noire should be the drunk driver of a motor vehicle
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The first known use of bête noire was in 1805
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