jeux
- plural of jeu.
Example Sentences
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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
"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
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
From this out we have nothing but a tumult of words, a confusion of jeux de scenes, interrupted here and there by silly preciosités which are intended to serve as aphorisms.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin
