Quai d'Orsay

American  

[ke dawr-se, key dawr-sey, kwey] / kɛ dɔrˈsɛ, ˈkeɪ dɔrˈseɪ, ˈkweɪ /

noun

1. the quay along the south bank of the Seine in Paris, on which are located the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other French government offices.

2. the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Quai d'Orsay British  

/ ke dɔrsɛ /

noun

1. the quay along the S bank of the Seine, Paris, where the French foreign office is situated

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Example Sentences

But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

A protest is planned near the imposing French foreign ministry complex known as the Quai d’Orsay, on the River Seine.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov attend a joint news conference after a meeting at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, France, November 27, 2018.

From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2022

The walk from the Gare du Nord across the Seine to France’s centre of power, a string of buildings off the Quai d’Orsay, takes a pleasant, circuitous hour: the route is a tourist’s dream.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2017

I shared a taxi back from the Quai d'Orsay with Woolsey and Krum.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway