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
As the cormorant is generally regarded to be the dernier cri in voracity, the incident illustrates the old saying of the biter bit.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 by Various
