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concours

[kawn-koor, kong-koor] / kɔ̃ˈkur, kɒŋˈkʊər /




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I judge concours events myself around the U.S. and Canada, so I knew that this BMW was not ready.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

“I think of my life,” Justus Rosenberg once told an interviewer, “as what the French call concours de circonstances — a confluence of circumstances.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

“It’s a serious collection,” said Peter Hageman, a Kirkland-based car collector, dealer and concours judge specializing in Bentleys.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2018

But the vintage car market took off in the 1980s, said Phil Tegtmeier, a Ferrari broker and concours judge from Bryn Mawr, Pa. “‘

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018

Not all who looked upon him understood, for to be hors concours is to be accursed.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson




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