jeu d'esprit
noun
a witticism.
jeux d'esprit
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pluralof jeu d'esprit.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
But all the best of his pieces, even the smaller jeux d'esprit, may be read with delight again and again by young and old.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison
