dernier cri
Example Sentences
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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
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 profit shall they reap.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
