Crossword clues for mot juste
mot juste
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mot juste
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hence Channel One, a commercial satellite network serving, if that is the mot juste, 12,000 schools.
▪ The right word, le mot juste, he had recognized, can wound; can even kill.
Wiktionary
mot juste
n. The perfectly appropriate word or phrase for the situation.
WordNet
mot juste
n. the appropriate word or expression
Usage examples of "mot juste".
That, or its French equivalent, was the word which would have leaped to the mind of the stylist Flaubert, always so careful in his search for the mot juste.
Hatch didn't qualify as the mot juste, either, because no architrave surrounded the hole in the wall.