1995, R. Howard Bloch, Carla Alison Hesse, Future Libraries, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 137:
Those familiar with recent debates over architectural style have been surprised by the uncompromising return to a neo-twenties modernism pur et dur, […]
2011, Roberto Piazza, Soft Matter: The stuff that dreams are made of, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN)
Roberto Piazza trained as a physicist pur et dur in the school of Vittorio Degiorgio, and is now professor in Politecnico di Milano.
2013, Dr Elizabeth C Tingle, Purgatory and Piety in Brittany 1480–1720, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. (→ISBN), page 11:
By the early seventeenth century, an important part of Breton identity and culture, among both elite and popular groups, was a millennium-old Catholicism pur et dur.
