mot juste
Americannoun
noun
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So the word is out, and it’s le mot juste.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Gainsbourg is bilingual, but French is her first language; she pauses occasionally in our conversation to search around for le mot juste.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2019
And as Barnum ended nearly a century of trying to edit that sense of wonder into the mot juste, he finally nailed it at the end.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019
“And if they don’t want to feel rich, then they’re probably—” He pauses to consider the mot juste, then adds, “Dead.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 13, 2018
"You have a nice instinct for the mot juste," she informed him.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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