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dernier
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Definition:1. [French] last; latest; latter2. [English] last
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Uses:
Usually one of:
dernier mot, dernier cri dernier resort.
(word, fashion, resort)
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Aunt Emmy's cheek was very soft too, and so was her full, silky hair, which she wore parted all her life, though it was never the fashion to do so that I can remember, though I am told it is now the dernier cri among the débutantes.
Mary Cholmondeley. The Lowest Rung. (1908)
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The colonization crusade cannot now fail of being popular. Phlebotomy being agreed to as a dernier resort, I shall briefly enumerate some of the various professions and classes which may expect to derive no inconsiderable gain from its execution; for as our government, in conjunction with benevolent associations, is to appropriate millions of dollars to accomplish this object, the pay will be sure and liberal.
William Lloyd Garrison. Thoughts on African Colonization. (1832)
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he found Levin in the garden, where he was walking about waiting for his guest’s departure. "Mais c’est ridicule! What fly has stung you? Mais c’est du dernier ridicule!* What did you think, if a young man..."Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina.
*but this is of the latest ridicule!
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