du jour








adjective

  1. as prepared on the particular day; of the kind being served today: The soup du jour is split pea.
  2. fashionable; current: environmentalism and other issues du jour.

adjective

  1. (postpositive) informal currently very fashionable or popularthe young writer du jour
adj.

from French plat du jour “dish of the day,” early 20c. on restaurant menus, abstracted as an all-purpose modifier 1989.

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