jour
- noun
- /ʒʊr/
- The results have been promises to get back to me, citing the excuse du jour.
- soup du jour
- Contre-jour
- Belle du Jour
But the beauty is if they're done and if it's not just a diet du jour or the new resolution walk, run or walk.
- But the beauty is if they're done and if it's not just a diet du jour or the new resolution walk, run or walk.
- And I'm, I'm trying to be cautious of anything that is kind of the investment sector du jour.
- You want you want we can talk about China at the World Bank, My my topic du jour.
- A few people said that the left wing is just as critical of SIS heck white guys as the right wing is critical of their minority du jour.
Examples
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And just what is your soup du jour?
Fiction book (1998) -
And then last thing on the general jurisprudence before we get into the topic du jour of cybersecurity.
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And then my social network addiction du jour is Facebook, you know, and what is next for you?
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"It's the defense argument du jour," Lynch says.
Academic text (2000) -
Twitter has become the social medium du jour.
Academic text (2014) -
What's your poison du jour?
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We've got the catch du jour.
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And then these are the specialty du jour, the Maple Glazed Bacon Potato Extravaganza.
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The chef prepares a special dish for the jour called the catch du jour.
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At the restaurant, the jour dessert was a delicious chocolate mousse.
Synonyms
A calendar day for a special event or public celebration
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jour is French for 'day' and appears in phrases like du jour meaning 'of the day'. Think of journal, a daily record, and journey, which once meant a 'day's travel; both come from the same root, so remembering 'day' explains why jour is used on menus and in phrases.