tour de force

1. 1.

   a masterly or brilliant feat

   Broaderfeat

Questions about tour de force

What does tour de force mean?

tour de force means "a masterly or brilliant feat".

Is tour de force a common word?

tour de force 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.