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
In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Gen�t has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the derni�re crise without slipping from a fashionable tone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Which seems likely to become the dernier cri of the overpaid throughout all the ages.
From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.