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de rigueur
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  • He studied shapely young coeds, older women professors, and female visitors in the Duke Blue Devils T-shirts that seemed de rigueur for outsiders.†  (source)
  • It's de rigueur.†  (source)
  • Yet there were still the occasional sweat parties, the room inspections, and the de rigueur harassment at mess.†  (source)
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  • While his process was quite clean, environmentally speaking, he was setting up in business at a time when public pressure on industry was such that some gesture of ecological concern was pretty much de rigueur.†  (source)
  • And beside her a very de rigueur youth of fine physique and pink complexion nodded jerkily.†  (source)
  • Everyone has subjects of conversation, ladies for instance...people in high society always have their subjects of conversation, c'est de rigueur, but people of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward.†  (source)
  • On the contrary that stab in the back touch was quite in keeping with those italianos though candidly he was none the less free to admit those icecreamers and friers in the fish way not to mention the chip potato variety and so forth over in little Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic de rigueur off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap.†  (source)
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