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du jour

[ duh zhoor, doo; French dy zhoor ]

adjective

  1. as prepared on the particular day; of the kind being served today:

    The soup du jour is split pea.

  2. fashionable; current:

    environmentalism and other issues du jour.



du jour

/ duË ËˆÊ’É”Ë; dy Ê’ur /

adjective

  1. informal.
    postpositive currently very fashionable or popular

    the young writer du jour

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of du jour1

< French: of the day
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of du jour1

C20: from French, literally: of the day (as used on restaurant menus of items that change daily)
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But let’s begin with the constitutional crisis du jour!

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“It’s the question du jour,†says William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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It’s also the topic du jour of the political moment.

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Audiences didn’t want to hear any sanctimonious songwriting from their pop star du jour.

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Her followers, whipped into a hateful frenzy, flood the victim du jour with hateful messages and often escalate to offline contact of harassing phone calls and bomb threats.

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