Citations:de rigueur

English citations of de rigueur

• 1959, Frank Chodorov, The Rise and Fall of Society, Devin-Adair, Chapter 13, page 126:

  It is still de rigueur for the victorious State to add to its exploitable territory at the expense of the conquered.

• 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN:

  Not a problem. I lived half my adult life in a country where dropping in unannounced was de rigueur.

• 2010 May 2, Caspar Llewellyn Smith, The Observer, Biffy Clyro: 'We still feel like underdogs'

  It is often expected of rock stars that they'll sport a ghostly pallor and in this respect Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro doesn't disappoint: as well as a black leather jacket and the de rigueur beard and the tattoos that cover his muscled arms, he blinks into the sunshine as someone barely used to it. But then the same is even truer of his bandmates, twin brothers James and Ben Jo.

• 2020 November 4, Paul Bigland, “At no point have I felt unsafe...”, in Rail, page 47:

  All I spot are lots of anglers on the canal at Wigan, indulging in a sport where social distancing is de rigueur!