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Grammar : Noun
Spell : too r duh fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh fawrs
Phonetic Transcription : ˌtʊər də ˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs; French tur də ˈfɔrs

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Définition of tour de force

Origin :
  • 1802, French, "feat of strength."
  • noun spectacular achievement
Example sentences :
  • Let who will decide which tour de force was the more difficult.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • He had, however, added something to his score by a Hooverian tour de force.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
  • This, however, is a tour de force, and not quoted as worthy of imitation.
  • Extract from : « Handbook of Embroidery » by L. Higgin
  • His face is a tour de force—that of a rare critic, as all healthy babies are.
  • Extract from : « Franz Hals » by Edgcumbe Staley
  • This was a master stroke—a tour de force—a knock-out—anything you will.
  • Extract from : « Superwomen » by Albert Payson Terhune
  • None of the other Dulcines have been able to achieve this tour de force of the creatrix.
  • Extract from : « My Recollections » by Jules Massenet
  • “I thought that,” he said, “a bit of a tour de force,” and surely he was right there.
  • Extract from : « Tennyson and His Friends » by Various
  • And so justice is saved if only by a tour de force of the imagination.
  • Extract from : « Modern Religious Cults and Movements » by Gaius Glenn Atkins
  • The Cathedrals are even more of a tour de force of his talent.
  • Extract from : « The French Impressionists (1860-1900) » by Camille Mauclair
  • But it was a foreign idiom to him, and his occasional use of it a tour de force.
  • Extract from : « Robert Browning » by C. H. Herford
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