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De rigueur   /di rɪgjˈur/   Listen
De rigueur

adjective
1.
Required by etiquette or usage or fashion.





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"De rigueur" Quotes from Famous Books



... "the dog" but "dog" unspecified and absolute. True, till 1700 it was largely a matter of silhouette, the lissom outline was there, but with a certain variety of colouring. Then the 18th century stepped in and made spots de rigueur—Dalmatians invaded new territory. They conquered the kingdom of china and occupied a commanding position in coaching prints. An unaccompanied post chaise, deplorable in life, because unknown in art, ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... taking subjects bodily from The Nights; then it annexed its plays as we do—the Novel having ousted the Drama— from the French; and lastly it took courage to be original. Many years ago I saw Harun al-Rashid and the Three Kalandars, with deer-skins and all their properties de rigueur in the court-yard of Government House, Damascus, declaiming to the extreme astonishment and delight of the audience. It requires only to glance at The Nights for seeing how much histrionic ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "De rigueur" :   obligatory


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