tour de force – English noun declension

English noun forms of tour de force

Noun: tour de force
Singulartour de force
Pluraltours de force

Sample Sentences

  • Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
  • Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine. [1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 429:]

Nouns inflected like tour de force

tour de force, tour d'horizon, tour of duty,

Etymology

Borrowed from French tour de force (“feat of strength”), circa 19th century. See: French Nouns 'tour de force'.