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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  • "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