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juste-milieu
[ zhyst-mee-lyœ ]
noun
- a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of juste-milieu1
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Example Sentences
One has lost his place, another his title, and a third his money, and they say this all proceeds from the 'juste milieu.'
And Vital showed them a hat of a form and design which was truly expressive of the juste-milieu.
Query—Do not the Germans furnish something very like this juste milieu?
In this case, at least, England shows a beautiful specimen of the juste milieu.
He was the embodiment in the art of painting, as someone has put it, of Louis Philippe's maxim of the juste-milieu.
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