Etymology

du jour

Today it means: Of the day; prepared for the day in question Full definition →

French du jour
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  1. French · borrowed fromdu jour
  2. English todaydu jour

Borrowed from French du jour (literally “of the day”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.