juste-milieu

American  

[zhyst-mee-lyœ] / ʒüst miˈlyœ /

noun

French.

plural

juste-milieux

1. a point between two extremes; the golden mean.

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Etymology

Origin of juste-milieu

Literally, “exact middle”

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

They, in truth, form between them the genuine juste-milieu on which the present government is balanced.

From Project Gutenberg

But also -- despite his often repeated claim to reject tradition absolutely -- paying complete homage to an earlier French artist: Honore Daumier, whose tiny clay effigies of politico-literary notables known as Les Celebrites du Juste-Milieu, wizened, compressed and distorted, are the obvious and inescapable grandfathers of all Dubuffet's turnip men.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Project Gutenberg

Besides, the change of heart of the bourgeoisie could only go as far as a lukewarm juste-milieu; the more determined, uniting with the workers, would only form a new Gironde, and succumb in the course of the mighty development. 

From Project Gutenberg