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Definition of Tour de force
1. Noun. A masterly or brilliant feat.
Definition of Tour de force
1. Noun. A feat demonstrating brilliance or mastery in a field. ¹
2. Noun. An outstanding display of skill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tour De Force
Literary usage of Tour de force
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... tour de force, a book of Latin verses containing sixteen hundred and ninety
different anagrams on the words " Salvator, Genetrix, Joseph," and the same ..."
2. The Life of Sir Halliday Macartney, K. C. M. G.: Commander of Li Hung Chang by Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger, James Crichton-Browne (1908)
"... advice to China—The Foreign Office verdict on Macartney—Every promise kept—A
last tour de force—Retirement— Rents ..."
3. The Library by Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson, William John Loftie (1892)
"brilliant tour de force; but it is nevertheless infinitely superior to the earlier
efforts of Kenny Meadows in 1843, and also to the fancy designs of Harvey ..."
4. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
""Romola" is certainly a wonderful monument of literary accomplishments; but it
remains a tour de force, too elaborate, too laboured, too intricate, ..."
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