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Definition of Pis aller
1. Noun. An expedient adopted only in desperation. "`pis aller' is French for `worst going'"
Definition of Pis aller
1. Noun. A last resort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pis Aller
Literary usage of Pis aller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"PIS-ALLER " MAN is blind because of sin, Revelation makes bim sure ; Without
that, who looks within. Looks in vain, for all 's obscure. ..."
2. Miscellanies by Charles Kingsley (1860)
"Poetry itself was, with most parents, a dram, to be given, like Dalby's Carminative,
as a pis aller, when children could not possibly be kept quiet by Miss ..."
3. Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel (1893)
"But solitude is only a pis-aller. 6th July 1880. —• Magnificent weather.
The college prize-day.* Towards evening I went with our three ladies to the plain ..."
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