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
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
Carroll had latched onto the dernier cri: from Paris to Rome, the word was feathers.
From Time Magazine Archive
To wear over this a long cloak of white satin with a wide collar of swansdown, was the dernier cri of Paris, Madame assured her customer.
From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
