1
: made for a particular day
—used of an item not specified on the regular menu
soup du jour
2
: popular, fashionable, or prominent at a particular time
the buzzword du jour
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Examples of du jour in a Sentence
Our soup du jour is chicken noodle.
Long hair was the style du jour.
Recent Examples on the Web
Through the years, designers have incorporated fetish leather, harnesses and masks into runway looks while certain body parts have sporadically emerged as erogenous zones du jour — and sometimes emerged completely, as in Rick Owens’ famed full frontal peepholes in his fall 2015 men’s collection.
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Tonya Blazio-Licorish, WWD, 18 June 2024
And the viral skincare brand Topicals’ also released a Slick Salve Mint Lip Balm that quickly became the lip balm du jour on TikTok.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 5 May 2024
Not since Melissa McCarthy showed up as Sean Spicer in 2017 has a star been so dialed in as a political side character du jour.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
And many will continue to be transfixed by the crisis du jour in the Middle East.
—Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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Tonya Blazio-Licorish, WWD, 18 June 2024
And the viral skincare brand Topicals’ also released a Slick Salve Mint Lip Balm that quickly became the lip balm du jour on TikTok.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 5 May 2024
Not since Melissa McCarthy showed up as Sean Spicer in 2017 has a star been so dialed in as a political side character du jour.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
And many will continue to be transfixed by the crisis du jour in the Middle East.
—Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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“Du jour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/du%20jour. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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