jeu
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jeux
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Other official translations include "jeu video en nuage" for "cloud gaming".
From BBC ● May 31, 2022
He was not, describing the letter as “a jeu d’esprit”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2020
In addition, science fiction grandmaster Robert Silverberg describes how “F&SF” got its start and Paul Di Filippo offers a scholarly jeu d’esprit about a long-lost collaboration between Jules Verne and H.G.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2019
Ratmansky’s Violente keeps her arms closer to her chest, and deploys them more softly, so that the pointing becomes a sort of jeu d’esprit.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2015
At this jeu d’esprit, which seemed rather dull to his Italian audience, though better understood by the captive, the renegade laughed immoderately.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
The two early works by him that happily overlapped this season in major London productions are often regarded as the merely playful jeux d’esprit of a giddy lad with an insatiable and compendious mind.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2017
Bizarre jeux d'esprit, they seem to issue from some other part of Williams's mind, until one considers that the work in this show all belongs to a world outside speech.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2012
"I love it at Monaco at the moment," Mbokani said, lurking behind David Niven dressed in a white tuxedo and saying "Mesdames at messieurs, les jeux sont faits" in a clipped voice.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2010
Some of his piano pieces, notably Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este, inspired the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hector joins in, and expresses strongly his disapprobation of games of chance; "les jeux innocents, où l'esprit se déploie," are the only safe pastime.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
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