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jeu d'esprit
[ zhœ des-pree ]
noun
, French.
, plural jeux d'es·prit [zh, œ, des-, pree].
- a witticism.
- a literary work showing keen wit or intelligence rather than profundity.
jeu d'esprit
/ ʒø dɛspri /
noun
- a light-hearted display of wit or cleverness, esp in literature
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jeu d'esprit1
Literally, “play of spirit”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jeu d'esprit1
literally: play of spirit
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Example Sentences
One of our poets, in a very clever jeu d'esprit, spoke of Mr. Browning as 'thinking in Greek.'
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For a jeu d'esprit of that kind it is too long; it would have suited better as an essay or article than as a volume.
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Then turn from the shadow of that scene to the shimmer of the one that follows immediately, full of smartness and jeu d'esprit.
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It was a mere jeu d'esprit, a specimen of his humorous journalism, elaborated from the St James's Gazette.
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Buckland, I think, once indulged in the jeu d'esprit of supposing an ichthyosaur lecturing on the human skull.
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