Word: rigeur
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...tentlike sweaters go, the dressmaker sweaters make their appearance. Sweaters have little scalloped collars, odd sleeves, and fancy embroidery. Since they are now de rigeur for evening wear, some of the most luxurious cashmeres come embroidered with pearls and bugle beads, or trimmed with mink at the neck and cuffs. The classic cashmere, often of purest white, is worn with a jumbled treasure-house of beads, necklaces, and pearls again, or with a fantastic pseudo-Renaissance choker or a vast bib of phoney gems...
...tentlike sweaters go, the dressmaker sweaters make their appearance. Sweaters have little scalloped collars, odd sloeves, and fancy embroidery. Since they are now do rigeur for evening wear, some of the most luxurious cashmeres come embroidered with pearls and bugle beads, or trimmed with mind at the neck and cuffs. The classic cashmere, often of purest white, is worn with a jumbled treasure-house of beads, necklaces, and pearls again, or with a fantastic pseudo-Renaissance choker or a vast bib of phoney gems...
...Austria in 1921 she married her fourth husband, Imre Czernayack, exiled Hungarian revolutionary. Abortion was at that time de rigeur among far left Communists all over the world, as no good female revolutionary was supposed to be hampered by children. (For this reason, many good abortionists are Russian.) Alice and Czernayack came to the U.S. soon after their marriage. Shortly after their arrival they changed their name...
...quite another way. Place, along with Dave Arnold under the co-managerial set-up the H.A.A. was forced to adopt because of the war, had charge of the largest gang of neophyte ball-gatherers and towel-holders of all sports. In football managing, one's attitre is strictly de rigeur...
...this sort of unmannerly exuberance be reconciled with the fact that suits are de rigeur in eastern classrooms, that formal dress means white tie and tail coat on most eastern campi, that exclusive prep schools furnish a majority of the entering undergraduates...