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Cause celebre   /kɑz sˈɛləbrə/   Listen
Cause celebre

noun
1.
An incident that attracts great public attention.





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"Cause celebre" Quotes from Famous Books



... read to the meeting, which was now a tolerably full one, the form of petition which was to serve as the single resolution of the evening. I was struck with this gentleman's departure from conventional legal phraseology on this occasion. Instead of naming the cause celebre "The Queen versus Castro" (it being written, as Sam Weller says, with a "wee") he termed it "The Queen via Castro!" The petition ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies


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