tour de force
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Etymology
Borrowed from French tour de force (“feat of strength”), circa 19th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
tour de force (plural tours de force)
- A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field.
- Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
- 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 429:
- Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine.
Related terms
Translations
Feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field
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See also
Noun
tour de force m (plural tours de force)
Synonyms
Etymology
Literally, “turn of strength”, or more loosely translated as “turn of force”.
Pronunciation
Noun
tour de force m (plural tours de force)
Descendants
- → Dutch: krachttoer (calque)
Noun
tour de force f (genitive tour de force, plural tours de force)
- Alternative spelling of Tour de Force
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | tour de force | die | tours de force |
| genitive | einer | der | tour de force | der | tours de force |
| dative | einer | der | tour de force | den | tours de force |
| accusative | eine | die | tour de force | die | tours de force |
Declension of tour de force [feminine]
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