folie de grandeur
Americannoun
plural
folies de grandeurnoun
Etymology
Origin of folie de grandeur
From French
Example Sentences
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De Gaulle's Asian adventure dismayed the overwhelming majority of South Viet Nam's 7,000 strongly anti-Communist overseas Frenchmen, who called it "une folie de grandeur."
From Time Magazine Archive
But Struthers, who is not untouched with her folie de grandeur, has the slightly flurried satisfaction of an exile who has at last come into her own.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
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