1 October 2018
métier
[mey-tyey, mey-tyey]
noun
1. a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
2. a field of work or other activity in which one has special ability or training; forte.
Origin of métier
French Old French Gallo-Romance Latin
1785-1795; < French; Old French mestier < Gallo-Romance *misterium, for Latin ministerium ministry
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Examples from the Web for métier
Historical Examples
No man invents a metier without a strong element of success.
The Daltons, Volume I (of II)
Charles James Lever
He was one with his idea and his metier, and that is sufficient.
Adventures in the Arts
Marsden Hartley
Fighting seemed their metier and most of them preferred it to the monotony of working a mine.
Across the Mesa
Jarvis Hall
Our metier is not to compare, but to take what pleases us from each.
A Rock in the Baltic
Robert Barr
It spins to brave music, this peg-top, but its metier is to spin.
In Vanity Fair
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
He had the perfect gift of the charlatan, and he had discovered his metier.
The Right of Way, Complete
Gilbert Parker
Alas, I have been amazingly lazy; it was my metier to look on.
The Grey Room
Eden Phillpotts
“It wasn’t their metier, or the metier of their times,” said Miss Virginia with conviction.
A Fool For Love
Francis Lynde
She has the money and the taste, and with her, even more than with the Parisienne of the beau monde, being charming is a metier.
In Vanity Fair
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
He was not ashamed of his metier and allowed no threats nor pleas nor argument to disturb him.
In Vanity Fair
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
Today’s quote
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
– E. Y. Harburg
On this day
1 October – International Day of Older Persons.
1 October – World Vegetarian Day.
1 October 1867 – ‘Das Kapital‘ by Karl Marx first published.
1 October 1869 – The world’s first postcards are issued in Vienna, Austria.
1 October 1893 – birth of Yip Man, Wing Chun Kung Fu grand-master. Immortalised in the movie, Ip Man. Died 2 December 1972.
1 October 1908 – the Model T Ford rolls out.
1 October 1918 – Damascus captured by Arab forces under the direction of Lawrence of Arabia (T.E. Lawrence) in World War I.
1 October 1942 – Little Golden Books commences publishing.
1 October 1957 – United States commences printing ‘In God We Trust’ on its paper currency.
1 October 1958 – Britain transfers Christmas Island to Australia.