cause celebre

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   an incident that attracts great public attention

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Questions about cause celebre

What does cause celebre mean?

cause celebre means "an incident that attracts great public attention".

Is cause celebre a common word?

cause celebre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.