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
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
We are the final word, or as the French express it, the last cry, le dernier cri.
From The Conquest of Fear by King, Basil
