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juste milieu

[zhyst-mee-lyœ] / ʒüst miˈlyœ /
NOUN
golden mean
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One's toilet must be a delicate compromise between ball attire and full visiting dress, but Mademoiselle Melanie has hit the juste milieu; and succeeded in carrying me through all the perils of Scylla and Charybdis.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

In stirrups, as in most other things, there is a juste milieu; and if the American dragoon is on one side of that, so is the Arab of the Desert on the other.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

When the subject was disposed of, the writer asked his friend the object of these unusual investigations, and was told that they were for the use of a leading Deputy, who was thoroughly juste milieu.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

His political position in the juste milieu is unexciting.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir

His only trouble now, in the dull and lazy times of the juste milieu, is drowsiness.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno




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