dernier cri
Example Sentences
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The man and his plan are taken from history; the Spectatorium was to be the showcase of his pageant on Columbus’s discovery of America and the dernier cri in the uses of artificial light.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017
Bumpy vertebrae are the dernier cri in 2017!
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2016
When the original version of this play, written by Langdon Mitchell, made its New York debut in 1906, it was widely considered the dernier cri in social satire.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2011
In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Gen�t has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the derni�re crise without slipping from a fashionable tone.
From Time Magazine Archive
An overwhelming naturalism swamped the older reserves of Egyptian art, and the expression of the postures, actions and familiarities of daily life, or the instantaneous attitudes of animals, became the dernier cri of fashion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
