jeux d’esprit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of jeux d’esprit
First recorded in 1710–20
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
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
Many of these fragile jeux d'esprit were done when, while staying at friends' homes, he amused their offspring with stories and images.
From Time Magazine Archive
They began by reading one of my jeux d'esprit, a brief letter in verse, addressed to a certain Cal27purnianus on the subject of a tooth-powder.
From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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