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required by etiquette or usage or fashion
instruction as to when and where a silk hat is de rigueur
How To Use de rigueur In A Sentence
- Seven others were invoking the spirits of the ancient Roman cult of Jupiter with an assortment of instruments including bombardons, Celtic flutes and de rigueur Mellotrons
- The room itself was pretty basic; wooden slatted beds and lumpy mattresses being de rigueur in backpack hostels, but the place had character.
- Natural fibres in cool lightweight fabrics, teamed with slightly shaped shirts to skim the body's contours, will be de rigueur.
- Peyote was much kinder (save the de rigueur regurgitation). The Times Literary Supplement
- Tubing hills and ice-skating are de rigueur it seems at ski resorts these days. Eileen Ogintz: January Is the Month for You to Finally Learn a Snow Sport
- For Spring, Giannini looked back to that golden era of the late 1960s, where long tunics, oodles of ruffles, and major statement jewels were de rigueur.
- After the save-the-planet zeitgeist of two decades ago failed to produce a blockbuster comeback, reusables have become de rigueur in certain circles, and to some parents who lack money for disposables. Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
- Sewn along the inseam was a name label, de rigueur for any boarding-school student. Salem Falls
- T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
- Evening dress is de rigueur at the casino.