jeu
Americannoun
plural
jeuxExample Sentences
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The Académie Française says "jeu video de competition" should replace "e-sports", and "streamer" should become "joueur-animateur en direct".
From BBC • May 31, 2022
He was not, describing the letter as “a jeu d’esprit”.
From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2020
The story proper begins almost as a light-hearted jeu d’esprit.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015
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
This woman's hysterical imagination turned a mere jeu d'esprit of her old friend into a formidable weapon of attack against her new lover.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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