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EMINENCE GRISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eminence grise mean?
• EMINENCE GRISE (noun)
The noun EMINENCE GRISE has 1 sense:
1. (French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position
Familiarity information: EMINENCE GRISE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
the President's wife is an eminence grise in matters of education
Hypernyms ("eminence grise" is a kind of...):
important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)
Domain usage:
French (the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France)
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