jeu

Definitions

Examples

• He works for Les Inrockuptibles, Le Point and La Règle du Jeu.

• Writing in La Règle du Jeu, he points out the commonalities between this “reasoning” and the worst rhetoric of the extreme right.

• “You know in Paris, and remember that scene at the Jeu de Paume,” he says.

• This inelegant jeu de theatre is severely ridiculed in the "Rehearsal."

• One of our poets, in a very clever jeu d'esprit, spoke of Mr. Browning as 'thinking in Greek.'

• Et que ceulx qui estoient la fenestre estoient bien aises de veoir jouer le jeu mes despens.

• The noble jeu de paume, the game of kings, the most aristocratic of all sports, should have a worthy home at Lupton.

• For a jeu d'esprit of that kind it is too long; it would have suited better as an essay or article than as a volume.