cri de coeur
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See also: cri-de-coeur and cri de cœur
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
French cri du cœur, meaning approximately “a cry from the heart”.
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Noun[edit]
cri de coeur (plural cris de coeur)
- An impassioned outcry, appeal, protest or entreaty.
- 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, p. 308:
- What do you think of Mr. Salinger's cri de coeur?
- 2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic[1], →ISSN:
- Personal accounts of racial discrimination were eagerly sought by whites seeking to understand "those people," while blacks justly valued them as overdue cris de coeur.
- 2015 August 27, Michael Signer, “What Happens When Donald Trump Stirs Up 'Passionate' Supporters”, in The Atlantic[2]:
- McCarthy’s reign was dangerous, but it lasted only three years, and it was attorney Joseph Welch’s heartfelt cri de Coeur during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954—“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”—that rang the loudest.
- 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, p. 308: