Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, from French extraordinaire (14c.), literally "extraordinary, unusual, out of the ordinary," but used colloquially as a superlative; see extraordinary, which represents an older borrowing of the same word.\n
Wiktionary
a. extraordinary; particularly skilled.
Usage examples of "extraordinaire".
MacDonell and Margaret Charpentier, pharmacists extraordinaire, who also have a very promising future as poisoners.
Que signifiait ce langage extraordinaire et cette attitude inexplicable chez un homme de ce caractere?
The lady is Madame Ellie Morte, diva and diseuse extraordinaire, who has performed before some of the greatest barons in all Deathlands.
On Wednesday, November 27, the official announcement came that Daniel Waters, anchor extraordinaire, had died.
Jeb Morgan, wagon master extraordinaire, can most certainly find his own way this little distance.
As the chief administrator of the Planetary Council of the Independent and Most Revered Homeworld of Earth silently digested this news, his friend and assistant extraordinaire gazed back at him with the desperate eyes of a short-legged dog locked alone for the night in a butcher shop with high counters.
Tarantella, tarantula extraordinaire, paused on the stone step, produced a microscopically small lipstick from some hidden part of her anatomy, and raked the family with a withering stare.
Jane Davis, who practices her own brand of unparalleled magic in overseeing my website, to my sister and fellow author Julie Reece Deaver, to my dear friend and thriller writer extraordinaire John Gilstrap, and to Robby Burroughs, who accompanied me to the performance of the Big Apple Circus at which the idea for this story was born.
Sincere thanks to librarian extraordinaire Cameron Knight, the Richmond Hill Public Library Board, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Doctor Lewis Bleen, the world-famous trick cyclist, the head shrinker extraordinaire, down to see Petey in Brixton.
Two months after Ed Thomas met his end in a delicate dance of death with 30,000 pounds of rolling doom, on the fateful night of December 10, 1942, while having dinner at the Brown Derby, Clete Reet dining with the suave William Powell and the delightful Myrna Loy, with dancer extraordinaire Fred Astaire and the incomparable Ginger Rogers suddenly sat bolt upright in his chair and swallowed his tongue, whereafter he swallowed his teeth, his lips, his chin, his nose, the remainder of his face and skull, his neck complete with wing collar and black tuxedo tie, his shoulders, both arms, then his torso, his hips, his legs, and his feet, shoes and all, until nothing remained of him but a toothless red pulsing orifice.
Ray Larkin, scout dog handler, and this is Taylor Hollister, agrobiologist extraordinaire.
Craig, Miami NBC-affiliate anchorwoman extraordinaire, who generously shared her life and profession with me, took me into her studio and opened doors that would otherwise have been locked.
Wuher, bioalchemist extraordinaire, was going to be able to keep Jabba the Hutt happy a very long time.
And riding tail-guard at the Aerie is Victor Wren, Larry's assistant and computer guru extraordinaire.