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‖ extraordinaire, a.
(ɛkstrɔːdɪˈnɛə(r), ‖ ɛkstraɔrdinɛr)
[a. F. extraordinaire extraordinary, outstanding; used in colloq. Fr. as a superlative: cf. extraordinary a.]
Remarkable, outstanding; of a person: unusually active or successful in a particular field. Used postpositively.
1940S. Rider Misplaced Corpse i. 5 It certainly sounds like the binge extraordinaire. 1960Publisher's note in J. Webb Delicate Darling 1, Juan Alfredo Delicado, poet, adventurer, and lover extraordinaire, was a very wanted man. 1975Economist 25 Jan. 45/2 Mr. John Mitchell, who was Mr. Nixon's campaign manager and a law-and-order man extraordinaire, has now been convicted of playing a key role in the Watergate cover-up. 1981Washington Post 12 Jan. b7/3 It is not any crazier than Richard Nixon, in the 1950s communist fighter extraordinaire, turning about to be the man who brought about..detente. 1984Observer 30 Sept. 24/3, I dropped in on fund-raiser extraordinaire, Dr Jerry Nims. |