cause celebre
See also: cause célèbre
English
editNoun
editcause celebre (plural cause celebres)
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of cause célèbre.
- 1987, Anthony Sweeting, “A MIDDLEMAN FOR ALL SEASONS: SNAPSHOTS OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOK MAN CHEUNG AND HIS "ENGLISH MADE EASY"”, in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society[1], volume 27, page 62:
- Shortly after he left Government service as a translator at the Supreme Court, the cause celebre was the assassination of a radically-minded (Sun Yat-sen supporting) school teacher in his own classroom by gunmen hired by the police chief in Canton.
- 2014 April 24, Alex von Tunzelmann, “The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who died this week, was a boxer in the United States. He was convicted of a 1966 triple homicide in two trials and became a cause celebre, inspiring Bob Dylan's song Hurricane.