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- noun Alternative spelling of
métier .
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Examples
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-- and when asked why he did not compose symphonies or operas, answered that his metier was the piano, and to it he would stick.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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BLITZER: I love it when we hear the word "metier" here in THE SITUATION ROOM.
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The problem with the French 'metier' is that you choose it when you're, like, 14 and usually it's your parents who choose it for you.
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They further revealed the fact that his literary "metier" was to be among the lower and middle classes.
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He tried for years to write a serious book and decided that that was not his metier.
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He tried for years to write a serious book and decided that that was not his metier.
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Born Ida Karamian in 1908 to Armenian parents in Russia, she served her apprenticeship and found both friends and a metier in modernist Paris in the late 1920s.
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By then I thought Id found my metier, and wondered if I would ever get back across the border into fiction.
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He tried for years to write a serious book and decided that that was not his metier.
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He tried for years to write a serious book and decided that that was not his metier.
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