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juste-milieu

American  
[zhyst-mee-lyœ] / ʒüst miˈljœ /

noun

French.
  • juste-milieux
    plural
  1. a point between two extremes; the golden mean.


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Etymology

Origin of juste-milieu

Literally, “exact middle”


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We are in the age of the juste-milieu; and this is appropriate enough.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by William Chambers

One is a republican, another Saint-Simonian; this one aristocrat, that one Catholic, others juste-milieu, middle ages, or German, as they choose for their purpose.

From Unconscious Comedians by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

And Vital showed them a hat of a form and design which was truly expressive of the juste-milieu.

From Unconscious Comedians by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

If impartiality consisted in always steering in the juste-milieu, M. Gerusez would be the most impartial of historians.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

Charles Dix," says a legitimate in principle, 243 but a juste-milieu man in practice,—"Charles Dix has abdicated the throne, which otherwise must unquestionably be his by indefeasible right.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope

They have failed, like all the juste-milieux of the world, and are laughed at for their eclecticism.

From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

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