Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The latest thing; the newest fashion.
Wiktionary
- n. The latest sensation; the last word, the newest or ultimate expression or example (of something).
Etymologies
- From French dernier cri. (Wiktionary)
- French : dernier, last, latest + cri, cry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dernier cri’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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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...
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Loan words from French
gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...
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Phrases from British novels, between ...
lust legs and lip..., lawner, clettering, cletter, big business, pointless, feckless, aimless, graceless, something nasty i..., cold comfort, mollock and 61 more...
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These words are about words.
words on words. yyep.
codex, folio, lexicon, tome, word stock, wordbook, wordlist, palaver, word index, argot, parlance, doublespeak and 68 more...
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Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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dirtysnowflake's Words
snowflake, parisian, couture, mystery, ruby, clandestine, corset, october, list, touch, caress, aboulia and 156 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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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...
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INSPIRATION ON STICK
words who inspires me on some projects
bridge to nowhere, malison, counting to infinity, butterfly effect, historical revisi..., antichrist, nouveau riche, soubrette, stendhal syndrome, bovarysme, faster, pussycat!..., groupies and 71 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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King of Gnomes
those gifted with the social eloquence, and the services they provide
grig, bellwether, callipygian, cynosure, gemütlich, dernier cri, toff, vaunt, scuttlebutt, sprezzatura, sprezzatura, sycophant and 64 more...
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Not English
ancien régime, amour propre, belle époque, au fait, bon vivant, cognoscenti, joie de vivre, enfant terrible, entente cordiale, fille de joie, macquillage, noblesse and 21 more...
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sounds
sameth, clotho, giggly, lobate, deshabille, agastya, xylorimba, kauket, brihaspati, shibboleth, panoply, tourmaline and 12 more...
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BrainyBabe "Surely in England she would escape into another sphere, a refuge from the inexorable twentieth century, a world that had never heard of Arabia, with its hustle, its dread of not being dernier cri..." -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931. Dec 23, 2008