: a soup offered by a restaurant on a particular day
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The lunch lineup includes your choice of starter (soup du jour, salade verte or escargot with Pernod-garlic butter), an entree (moules frites, tuna Nicoise or roasted chicken breast) and dessert (cherry clafoutis or Noel Royale bittersweet-chocolate fondant).—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024 McCaffrey acted as if he’d been asked what the soup du jour was.—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024 A la carte items include a deluxe salad bar ($3), a bowl of soup du jour ($2) and desserts ($2).—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2021 In an industry once dominated by matte foundations and theater-grade contour kits, sheer skin tints and finger-painterly balms are makeup's soup du jour.—Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 26 Sep. 2022 Chef Ibti of Sudan makes a standout soup du jour with stuffed-cheese potato bread.—al, 19 Nov. 2019 Ask what yesterday’s soup du jour was before today’s special.—Lindsay Silberman, Town & Country, 31 May 2017 Menu: Kumamoto oysters or a salmon-fennel-leek tartlette as an appetizer, then butter salad with walnuts and Roquefort or a soup du jour for the second course.—Benjy Egel, sacbee, 13 Feb. 2018 The soup du jour, teeming with chunks of beef, potatoes and green beans, was similarly light but with a potent, fiery broth.—Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
Word History
Etymology
partial translation of French soupe du jour soup of the day
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