Lef t-handed; awkward; clumsy. [Used as French

Pardon me if I say so, but I never saw such rude, uncivil, gauche, ill-mannered men with women in my life.

Aristocracy, xxi.

2. In math., skew. Speciflcally — (a) Not plane; twisted. (6) Not perf ectly symmetrical, yet deviating from symmetry only by a regular reversai of certain parts. — Gauche curve, a curve not lying in a plane.— Gauche déterminant. See déterminant— Gauche perspective or projection, the projection of a figure from a center upon a surface not a plane.— Gauche polygon, a figure f ormed by a cycle of right lines each intersecting the next, but not ail in one plane. Thus, a gauche hexagon would be formed by the following 6 edges of a cube, where the numbers dénote the faces as those of a die are numbered : (1-2) (2-3) (3-6) (6-5) (5-4) (4-1).— Gauche surface, a surface generated by the motion of an unlimited straight line whose consécutive positions do not intersect ; a skew surface ; a scroll.

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