[Fr.; pa. pple. of exposer: see EXPOSE v.]
1. A statement put forth; a recital of facts or particulars.
1803. Pitt, in G. Rose’s Diaries (1860), II. 11. The Consul’s exposé speaks pretty plain.
1812. Examiner, 27 Dec., 822/1. This is the result of the Expose which has just been made. Ibid. (1813), 14 March, 168/2. The French Expose states, that France will have 150 sail of the line.
1846. Worcester cites Mackintosh ? 1765–1832.
2. A showing up of something discreditable.
1831. Disraeli, Yng. Duke, V. xiii. She has been negotiating … for some time … and the late exposé will not favour her interests.
1845. W. H. Maxwell, Hints to a Soldier, I. 163. This wretched exposé of Blake’s incompetency.
