cause celebre

See also: cause célèbre

English

Noun

cause celebre (plural cause celebres)

1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of cause célèbre
   • 1987, Anthony Sweeting, “A MIDDLEMAN FOR ALL SEASONS: SNAPSHOTS OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOK MAN CHEUNG AND HIS "ENGLISH MADE EASY"”, in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society‎^[1], volume 27, page 62:

     Shortly after he left Government service as a translator at the Supreme Court, the cause celebre was the assassination of a radically-minded (Sun Yat-sen supporting) school teacher in his own classroom by gunmen hired by the police chief in Canton.

   • 2014 April 24, Alex von Tunzelmann, “The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who died this week, was a boxer in the United States. He was convicted of a 1966 triple homicide in two trials and became a cause celebre, inspiring Bob Dylan's song Hurricane.