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noun
1.
as prepared on the particular day; of the kind being served today: The soup du jour is split pea.
2.
fashionable; current: environmentalism and other issues du jour.
Origin:
< French: of the day
< French: of the day
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Du jour
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
du jour
from Fr. plat du jour "dish of the day," early 20c. on restaurant menus, abstracted as an all-purpose modifier 1989.
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