cause célèbre

These user-created lists contain the word ‘cause célèbre’.

• Foreign words & phrases that matter ;

  Important foreign/historical wrdrs & phrses

  habeas corpus, beau geste, fin de siecle, décolletage, bete noire, manque, bonheur, pièce de résistance, mot juste, beau monde, gri-gri, de rigueur and 6 more...

• Tricky Words from French

  Loanwords from French -- both established and wet behind the ears -- that are tricky to spell or pronounce properly.

  trompe l'oeil, hors d'oeuvre, oeuvre, objet d'art, objet trouvé, contretemps, milieu, métier, mise en scène, mise en place, éclat, faineant and 64 more...

• Agatha Christie

  Charming and intriguing words one finds in AG's murder mysteries. Also see Murdered, you say?

  ambassadress, aperitif, baluster, cause célèbre, crime passionnel, embankment, embonpoint, galantine, mauvais sujet, mephistophelean, mountebank, purloin and 67 more...

• addendumb's Words

  fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...

• kirstenio's Words

  lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...

• Clearinghouse

  For stuff to simply reside.

  calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...

• GRE uncommon

  patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...

• Words

  Words to revisit

  meliorate, ameliorate, ubiquitous, homologate, urbane, parergon, enmity, prevarication, karoshi, detritus, capitulate, luftmensch and 56 more...

• French

  fin de siecle, gauche, arriviste, roman a clef, dernier cri, gasconnade, bete noire, décolletage, rapporteur, joie de vivre, carte blanche, cause célèbre and 28 more...

• Words I Should Know

  epoxy, paramour, adroit, dysphoria, ascetic, posterity, melliloquent, subterfuge, rigmarole, cause célèbre, incarnadine, Rigor mortis and 9 more...

• la baguette

  bête noire, l'esprit d'escalier, noblesse oblige, cause célèbre, coup de grâce, belle époque, carte blanche, de rigueur, outré, sang-froid, force majeure, enfant terrible and 44 more...