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Metier   /mˈɛtjər/   Listen
noun
Metier  n.  
1.
Calling; vocation; business; trade. "Not only is it the business of no one to preach the truth but it is the métier of many to conceal it."
2.
The field or activity at which one excels; one's forte.





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"Metier" Quotes from Famous Books



... heart is his head,' replied Trevor; 'and besides, our business is to realise the world as we see it, not to reform it as we know it. A chacun son metier. And now tell me how Laura is. The old model was quite interested ...
— Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories • Oscar Wilde
... the game! And Sally knew he was a crook! I suppose it was the diamonds that fetched her. If you'd looked at his hands you would have noticed that he hadn't the paws of an honest Green Mountain farmer. Pick-pocket originally and marvelously deft; but precious stones are his true metier. The trifling little necklace he had on his person when he struck Walker's is worth a cool hundred thousand. He'll have to break it up and sell 'em in the usual way and it ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... increasing recognition of his son's achievements in art. Barrett Browning was at this time a pupil of Rodin in Paris, devoting himself to sculpture with the same ardor that he gave to his painting. As to which expression in art was the more his metier, chi lo sa? The young man was the child of the muses, and all forms of art were to ...
— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting
... Nobody got a scratch. We were past in a moment and in a breeze then blowing we had the heels of anything likely to give us chase. But an hour afterwards, as we stood side by side peering into the darkness, Dominic was heard to mutter through his teeth: "Le metier se gate." I, too, had the feeling that the trade, if not altogether spoiled, had seen its best days. But I did not care. In fact, for my purpose it was rather better, a more potent influence; like the stronger ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... but I have lived much on the Landes and in Biscay, travaillant a mon metier. I see by your look that you wish to know my history. I shall not tell it you. It contains nothing that is remarkable. See, I have smoked out your cigar; you may give me another, and add a dollar if you please, nous sommes creves ici de faim. ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow


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