Sentence examples for The dernier from inspiring English sources
noun
A motorized bicycle for paced cycling events such as keirin.
Surrealism was no longer the dernier cri.
The editing is patchy and the writing at times offers up warmed-over RuPaulisms as the dernier cri of fabulousness.
Surely he would prove to be not so much the reductio ad absurdum as the dernier cri, the ne plus ultra in the once-rarefied realm of tsardom?
Now some of the most respected champagne houses are not only saying that it's OK, but they marketing it as the dernier cri – or cru – in imbibing.
When the original version of this play, written by Langdon Mitchell, made its New York debut in 1906, it was widely considered the dernier cri in social satire.
How could actual terrorists try it, now that the festival has had the dernier cri, and already staged the attack so stylishly, so definitively?
Someone suggested that he learn to operate the Derny, and a new avocation was born.
Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters 4.24pm BST Victoria Pendleton follows the derny in the women's Keirin heats at the Velodrome.
He drives the Derny, a moped designed and built specifically to pace cyclists in the men's Keirin competition.
The solitary biker who leads the procession of Olympic cyclists in the keirin event is known as the derny after the type of motorised bicycle he rides.
James had breezed through her first-round match, leading from the front as soon as the derny rider got out of the way.
