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vieux jeu

UK/vjəˈʒə/

vieux jeu adjective: old-fashioned, outmoded.

Adjective

vieux jeu (comparative more vieux jeu, superlative most vieux jeu)

  1. Old-fashioned, outmoded.
    • If she was to leave Douglas, for what way of living was she to leave? There's something so damned vieux jeu, she thought gloomily, in leaving like Nora, to live differently!1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 358

Forms of vieux jeu

comparativemore vieux jeu
superlativemost vieux jeu

Origin of vieux jeu

From French vieux jeu.

Questions about vieux jeu

What does vieux jeu mean?
Vieux jeu means old-fashioned, outmoded.
What part of speech is vieux jeu?
Vieux jeu is an adjective.
How do you pronounce vieux jeu?
Vieux jeu is pronounced /vjəˈʒə/ (UK).

Words near vieux jeu in the dictionary

  1. Vietniks
  2. Vietor
  3. Vietraq
  4. Viets
  5. Vieux
  6. vieux jeu
  7. vieux riche
  8. vieux riches
  9. Vieux-Fort
  10. Vieuxes
  11. Vievis

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