dépaysé

adjective

dé·pay·sé

¦dā(ˌ)pā¦zā

: situated in unfamiliar surroundings : being out of one's element : displaced, astray

lived in hope of being instructed to drive me to Biarritz, where among the other hired-car chauffeurs … he would feel less dépaysé—

A. J. Liebling

Word History

Etymology

French, from past participle of dépayser to remove (a person) from his element, from Old French despaisier to exile, from des- de- + pais region, country, from Medieval Latin pagensis of a region, from Latin pagus region, district, village + -ensis -ese