Definitions
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- noun The latest thing; the newest fashion.
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- noun The latest sensation; the
last word , the newest or ultimate expression or example (of something).
Etymologies
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[French : dernier, last, latest + cri, cry.]
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From French dernier cri.
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Examples
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dernier cri of bachelor pads, was built in Bramhall, 12 miles from Manchester.
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dernier cri of bachelor pads, was built in Bramhall, 12 miles from Manchester.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph David Jenkins 2011
BrainyBabe commented on the word dernier cri
"Surely in England she would escape into another sphere, a refuge from the inexorable twentieth century, a world that had never heard of Arabia, with its hustle, its dread of not being dernier cri..." -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008