cause célèbre
See also: cause celebre
English
Alternative forms
- cause celebre (American)
Etymology
From French cause (“cause, case”) + célèbre (“famous”), in the title of a 18th-century compilation of famous legal cases, Causes célèbres.[1]
Pronunciation
- (French) IPA(key): /koz se.lɛbʁ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɔːz sɛˈlɛbɹ(ə)/
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- (US) IPA(key): /kɔz sɛˈlɛb/
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Noun
cause célèbre (plural causes célèbres)
- (chiefly UK) An issue or incident (originally, a legal case) arousing widespread controversy or public debate.
- 2021 February 15, Jack Nicas, “Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.
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Translations
issue or incident arousing heated public debate
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References
- Nicolas-Toussaint Des Essarts, editor (1773–1789) Causes célèbres
Further reading
- cause célèbre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “cause célèbre”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- cause célèbre at OneLook Dictionary Search
- cause celebre at OneLook Dictionary Search