du jour

American  

[duh zhoor, doo, dy zhoor] / də ˈʒʊər, du, dü ˈʒur /

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.

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du jour British  

/ duː ˈʒɔː, dy ʒur /

adjective

1. informal (postpositive) currently very fashionable or popular

   the young writer du jour

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Etymology

Origin of du jour

< French: of the day

Example Sentences

Who would have predicted that insurance reform would become a bipartisan cause du jour?

From The Wall Street Journal

The girls changed into their princess dresses du jour, and we headed back downstairs.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 2019, the wickedly fun horror-comedy “Ready or Not” made hide-and-seek into a terrifying encounter with the occult — and made its star, Samara Weaving, the scream queen du jour.

From Salon

Lunching with some of the hotshots—being a newbie I was by no means a fully-fledged member—I was fascinated, indeed, almost overwhelmed, by the story du jour: American Raceways.

From Barron's

So when Paltrow jumped at the opportunity to comment on the cultural obsession du jour in her 60-second video, her willingness to align herself with a world she was once seen as too haughty to embrace helped soften her public perception.

From Salon