Etymology

objet d'art

Today it means: A work of art with some artistic merit. Full definition →

French objet
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromobjet“object”
  2. English todayobjet d'art

Borrowed from French objet (“object”) and d'art (“of art”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchobjet all →

objet de vertuobjet trouvé

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.