jeu
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Still, there is one difference: Irregulars regard such playful ingenuity as merely an intellectual game, a literal jeu d’esprit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
He was not, describing the letter as “a jeu d’esprit”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2020
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
In English, at least, this all seems a tad vieux jeu.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012
Gace is the author of the earliest known jeu parti.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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
Such ironic jeux d'esprit are utterly foreign to the old wives' tale.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
Faure stepped down, muttered: "Les jeux sont faits" the croupier's classic cry that all bets are down.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tailleur calls the game by saying, "Messieurs, faites vos jeux," when the players stake on the different chances.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
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