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du jour

[duh zhoor, doo, 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

/ duː ˈʒɔː, dy ʒur /

adjective

  1. informal(postpositive) currently very fashionable or popular

    the young writer du jour

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of du jour1

< French: of the day
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Word 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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Back when the short video platform du jour was a little app named Vine, the wildly popular user Anthony Padilla posted a six-second video that became what we know today as a “load-bearing post,” a video that defines culture so succinctly it has become part of modern vernacular.

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While “The Fact Checker” is uneven, it’s a fun and quick read, and it does raise some of the most relevant questions du jour: is a fact?

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More recently — and at the urging of Trump’s consigliere du jour, the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk — those priorities have included labeling attacks against Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism.

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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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