jour
Noun
Meaning
jour (plural jours)
(chiefly US) Abbreviation of journeyman, e.g. jour printer.
jour.
Abbreviation of journal.
Alternative names
jour.
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Examples
At the Republican National Convention, the topic du jour was "cancel culture" and Republicans' supposed defense of free speech against censorious progressives.
An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796.
An overshadowed issue is now topic de jour on commissioner calls.
As every respectable waiter knows du jour means “of the day.”
Francesco Rognoni was another composer who specified the trombone in a set of divisions (variations) on the well-known song Suzanne ung jour (London Pro Musica, REP15).
Dombrowski reported that the soldiers he had sent to defend the ramparts of the city between Point du Jour and Porte d'Auteuil had retreated to the city; he had only 4,000 soldiers left at la Muette, 2,000 at Neuilly, and 200 at Asnieres and Saint Ouen.