dernier cri
Example Sentences
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Certainly, Garry has been provided with an ideal playpen of a London apartment, designed by David Zinn as the dernier cri in Mayfair Bohemian chic.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2017
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
Carroll had latched onto the dernier cri: from Paris to Rome, the word was feathers.
From Time Magazine Archive
They say Sixth Avenue and the Bowery keep The dernier cri that once was far from cheap; Green Veils, one season chic—Department stores Mark down in vain—no profits shall they reap.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
