How To Use De rigueur In A Sentence
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It is de rigueur to ridicule them - of course they are laughable loons!
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The national anthem at last week's home opener at Fenway Park — performed by a Boston Pops contingent — included the now de rigueur obbligato of a military jet flyover.
Flams and drags
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His critically acclaimed band Playgroup brought live electro to the club long before ironic mullets and fauxhawks became de rigueur.
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By the end of that century, the ballerina's long tutu and the premier danseur's tights, trunks and maillot became de rigueur and virtually standardized.
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And it's that part of the equation that most written SF is chickening out of: it's de rigueur to show how awfully bad things are going, and how much worse they will get, but almost nowhere do you see SF that thinks about how to * solve* those problems.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jetse de Vries
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And," she wrote, "I cannot tell you what I felt when I put on the black dress and mantelletta and veil, which are _de rigueur_ when a lady is granted an audience with the Pope.
My New Curate
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Imagine a time without guidebooks, when all routes were first ascents, when hemp ropes and cleated boots were de rigueur.
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There was a strong smell of aniseed in the air - pastis was the apéritif de rigueur.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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I grew up in Ottawa where wearing snowsuits under your Halloween costume is de rigueur, so this probably shouldn't phase me.
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For years, unloading your innermost thoughts to a counsellor was de rigueur for those undergoing the trials of celebrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a country where goat-propelled carts are de rigueur and people stop and stare in wonder at a 35-year-old Mack truck chuffing and chugging along the rutted roads.
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The door windows are frameless, de rigueur for a coupé, and blacked-in edges to the rear side windows disguise the hefty centre pillars behind.
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Do you think that formal social introductions should be de rigueur?
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It was once de rigueur for rakes and bounders to attach titles to their names; they would become mysterious barons and outcast counts.
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_ This appears a startling statement and a sweeping; but, as a matter of fact, the Eastern girl is not left, like her Western sister, to flirt and frivol into middle age in single "cussedness," but almost invariably becomes a respectable married lady at ten or twelve, and drapes her lovely, but not over clean, head in the mantle of old sacking, which it is _de rigueur_ for matrons to adopt.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Complex copyright law is becoming de rigueur for those interested in the music biz.
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For nearly a century the groomed front lawn had been de rigueur on almost every street on this continent.
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Curriculum and uniform remain firmly those of the English public school of the 1930's, with khaki drill and the works of John Buchan still very much de rigueur.
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There, the burning of suits and chaining naked team-mates to goalposts was de rigueur.
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On the less serious side, outrageously expensive afternoon teas in fancy hotel become de rigueur.
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Otherwise, they're big and feisty, baroque in the manner that has come to be de rigueur.
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For the real obsessive, temperature and humidity controls are de rigueur, along with security systems that would shame a bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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At this stage in the development of the archetypal pin-up photograph, there was still more satin than skin, with the figure hugging satin gowns and silk negligees being the props de rigueur.
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Where I work, smart suits are de rigueur for the women.
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Plush lounges and hotel bars are de rigueur in NYC for evening entertaining.
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But as cocktail lists have become de rigueur at restaurants and bars, society is now plagued with a problem even more serious than the "appletini" craze.
Eater National
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He has moved away from the de rigueur open-plan space of the contemporary home.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's 48 and a mum of four, but miniskirts, bikinis and corsets are still absolutely de rigueur.
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T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
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In the early to mid nineties, fuzzy guitars and pumping bass lines were de rigueur.
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For trips, coat and tie, leather shoes (no sneakers) and dress socks are de rigueur.
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It was ‘de rigueur,’ practically, to introduce your next song with a musicological essay - we all did it.
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We decided to try the beet tower and the fatted calf, still listening in as the “girl talk” from the table beside us got louder and drunker and the de rigueur flirting with the obviously gay waiter began.
Roseanne Archy
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By the end of that century, the ballerina's long tutu and the premier danseur's tights, trunks and maillot became de rigueur and virtually standardized.
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His is too astute to fall for this and we, in the meantime, should simply be glad of his consistently high quality over every three course dinner, five choices for each course and, de rigueur these days, two classy amuse-bouches.
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instruction as to when and where a silk hat is de rigueur
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Home cinemas and games rooms are de rigueur.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evening dress is de rigueur at the Casino.
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Many moons ago, when deployed to Kuwait as a young shavetail butterbar, we didn't have the obscene amenities that are de rigueur on even the most spartan FOB today. it took about a month before we had a shower -- which was little more than a shower head beneath a tank of water, the purpose of which was not to get you clean, but to get the funk off of your body.
From My Position... On the way!
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The Boada solo, with epaulement, hand on the hip, shoulder thrust slightly forward as part of the de rigueur presentation of a sarabande, is wonderfully elegant; Boada provided a restraint quite distinct from his ebullient Basilio.
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He didn't have a scooter, but he bought a mod parka and - as was de rigueur at the time - sewed a fox's tail onto it.
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But surely, occasionally, it is tempting for a Suez operative to sweeten some local politician in parts of the world where such payments are de rigueur?
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She's a mild variant of religious nutter, which is inevitable on the Republican side pandering to the "faith-based community" being de rigueur.
Looking in from the outside
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T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
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Knee breeches or culottes were the de rigueur apparel for 18th century gentlemen.
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Cold showers, self-denial and a daily ration of physical discomfort were de rigueur and considered character forming.
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I guess to their fellow homeboys this is hilarious and considered de rigueur, but to the rest of the world they seem clownish.
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In crowded Athens, heavy drapes are not de rigueur, nor are lowered voices, and the neighbourhood sights and sounds press in upon you.
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But after a week of glorious weather, in which this sort of sunset action was de rigueur, a nasty southerly blew in on Sunday, scarpering plans the family had had for a big walk in the Tararuas.
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Farms have sprung up on rooftops, home canning of fruits and vegetables has taken off, and composting is de rigueur.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Local Food--Where Sustainability Meets Self-Reliance
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T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
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Seven others were invoking the spirits of the ancient Roman cult of Jupiter with an assortment of instruments including bombardons, Celtic flutes and de rigueur Mellotrons
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Horns, Rhodes and electric piano hallmark the jazzy funk of the house cuts (de rigueur for his albums).
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Evening dress is de rigueur at the casino.
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T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
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Sewn along the inseam was a name label, de rigueur for any boarding-school student.
Salem Falls
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After the save-the-planet zeitgeist of two decades ago failed to produce a blockbuster comeback, reusables have become de rigueur in certain circles, and to some parents who lack money for disposables.
Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
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For Spring, Giannini looked back to that golden era of the late 1960s, where long tunics, oodles of ruffles, and major statement jewels were de rigueur.
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Tubing hills and ice-skating are de rigueur it seems at ski resorts these days.
Eileen Ogintz: January Is the Month for You to Finally Learn a Snow Sport
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Peyote was much kinder (save the de rigueur regurgitation).
The Times Literary Supplement
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Natural fibres in cool lightweight fabrics, teamed with slightly shaped shirts to skim the body's contours, will be de rigueur.
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The room itself was pretty basic; wooden slatted beds and lumpy mattresses being de rigueur in backpack hostels, but the place had character.
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I don't suppose Roy Keane favours his current coiffeur on the grounds that number one shaven heads are still de rigueur at his local barbers.
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This gambit, a signature feature of the show, can force the audience to viscerally experience the foreignness of the past, and when so used it can be a brilliant dramatic ploy — but only if the action portrayed is as de rigueur as the show suggests.
Mad About Mad Men
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It is quite another thing-and well beyond the usual, de rigueur, but shameful cooperation with Arab -, Islamic -, and "nonaligned" - bloc calumny against Israel in the
David Horowitz Freedom Center
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The focus circle is more purely decorative and should contain the de rigueur apothecary rose for authenticity and underplanted will a hardy lavender such as 'Hidcote' or 'Munstead.'
FRENCH KITCHEN GARDENS 2009: MAKE WAY FOR THE POTAGER
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Not to mention the fact that referring to "steffi" or "iggy" or "Boob Rae" is de rigueur there, because it is sniggeringly funny, just a joke and why are you lefties getting your panties in a bunch.
There are no words ...
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I don't suppose Roy Keane favours his current coiffeur on the grounds that number one shaven heads are still de rigueur at his local barbers.
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Natural fibres in cool lightweight fabrics, teamed with slightly shaped shirts to skim the body's contours, will be de rigueur.
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In the early to mid nineties, fuzzy guitars and pumping bass lines were de rigueur.
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Two British academics have blamed a culture of ‘laddism’ where successful male students are ‘geeks;’ and a cultivated indifference to intellectual pursuits is as de rigueur as having a mobile phone.
Archive 2005-04-03
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He'd managed to get his outer garments on this time: a sedate black homburg, a black cashmere topcoat, and the de rigueur white silk scarf.
THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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It has become de rigueur to shoot horror/thrillers in blue/grey light, that might be mistaken for monochrome, with its shivery basement chill.
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There was a strong smell of aniseed in the air - pastis was the apéritif de rigueur.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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It can be best comprehended in the context of living in the outer suburbs when outdoor dunnies were still de rigueur.
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To attract crowds large enough to fill up the ornate space, big spectacles were de rigueur.
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For those born and bred on the coast, rushing seas are de rigueur, and they think nothing of a squall that puts their ketch over to port 45 degrees.
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Such was the chorus of cash registers that word soon spread of FIAC's perfect counterpoint to London's giant Frieze Art Fair, the week before, and October channel-hopping will likely be de rigueur next year.
Michael Kurcfeld: A Fair To Remember: The Biggest Asset at Paris's Art Fair Is Paris
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Evening dress is de rigueur at the casino.
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You have been at your best, I dare say, in the campaign and in office, when you have paid little attention to the conventional wisdom; when you have pushed aside “politics de rigueur” and gone with “politics de seat-of-the-pants.”
Dear President Obama #244: Picture time: Uh, check the exposure…
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There are the same subtly contoured greens, guarded by the same generic, deep-dish bunkers that have become de rigueur for a major-championship course.
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To this end, laboratory coats, gloves, masks and hair coverings are de rigueur for many types of examination.
