What is "rigueur"

Usage examples of "rigueur".

Elle envoya Louis XVI et sa famille dans la tour du Temple et les fit garder avec la plus grande rigueur.

It may be de rigueur in academic circles to moan about the myth of Sisyphus and the pointless futility of human existence, but such an attitude is antithetical to the principles of science fiction.

Aussi les plaintes contre la rigueur du temps deviennent murmures contre le prince.

To go with his tall black wig and his thin black moustache he was wearing an outfit that was, fundamentally, black: the de rigueur three-piece suit of waistcoat, coat, and breeches, all in the same fabric—probably a very fine wool.

He studied shapely young coeds, older women professors, and female visitors in the Duke Blue Devils T-shirts that seemed de rigueur for outsiders.

Ethnic costume (authentic and colorfully bogus), native arts and crafts, traditional occupations and the like are also de rigueur, insofar as they are not contrary to civilized usage, economically detrimental, sexually repressive, incompatible with the mandated Milieu standards of education and social justice, or xenophobic.

Now it's a pretty mixed crowd but the anti-communist line is still de rigueur.

Ever since the colonel had taken to calling his men Ninjas, the nasty little steel projectiles had become de rigueur to the men - somewhat to the concern of the powers-that-were.

And, just as a Martian, out of deference to conventions, wears a light robe upon Tellus, Kinnison as a matter of course stripped to his evenly-tanned hide when visiting planets upon which nakedness was de rigueur.

Oh, I see-- I don't suppose it would be quite de rigueur for a top-bracket telepath to win all the Grand Masters' championships.

This could now be made a purely personal matter, in which a duel would be de rigueur.

The problem was that Pia had in fact hired the stalker in an attempt to increase his client's media profile, on the grounds that it was the latest de rigueur accessory for a Hollywood star, and 'far cheaper than a Humvee', as he told Jo.

Randy recognizes him as Mike or Mark, a graphics card hacker who farms ostriches in Gilroy (quirky hobbies being de rigueur in the high-tech world).

There was also the de rigueur helicopter pad with a new Sikorsky S-76 sitting on it.

He was dressed, well, professorially: tweed jacket and bow tie (missing only the de rigueur suede elbow patches).