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What (who) is idée fixe - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Idee Fixe; Idée fixe (disambiguation); Idee fixe; Idée Fixe
idee fixe
[?i:de?'fi:ks]
¦ noun (plural idees fixes pronunciation same) an obsession.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'fixed idea'.
Formes fixes
THREE FOURTEENTH- AND FIFTEENTH-CENTURIES FRENCH POETIC FORMS: THE BALLADE, RONDEAU AND VIRELAI
Fixed forms; Forme fixe; Fixed form; Forme fixé
The formes fixes (; singular: forme fixe, "fixed form") are the three 14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau, and virelai. Each was also a musical form, generally a chanson, and all consisted of a complex pattern of repetition of verses and a refrain with musical content in two main sections.
table d'hote
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RESTAURANT TERMINOLOGY
Prix Fixe; Table d'hote; Prix fixe; Prix-fixe; Fixed-price dining; Fixed price dining; Set Lunch; Tables d'hôte; Tables d'hote; Prixe fixe; Set menu; Set meal
[?t?:bl(?)'d??t]
¦ noun a restaurant meal offered at a fixed price and with few if any choices.
Origin
C17: Fr., lit. 'host's table'.
Wikipedia
Idée fixe
Idée fixe may refer to:
- Idée fixe (psychology), a psychological disorder
- Idée Fixe (album), an album by Aerolit
- Dogmatix, the English name of an Asterix comics character, called Idéfix in French
- Leitmotif, a recurring musical phrase used as an element of musical structure.
Examples of use of idée fixe
1. Hence, "soap opera". At the period he was writing Bleak House, sanitary reform – soap for the nation – was an obsession with Dickens – his idée fixe, his hobbyhorse, his mania, one of the few topics on which he could be boring.
2. By using torture, by the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, by employing "extraordinary renditions" of suspects to countries where they could be tortured, by insisting on going it almost alone in Iraq, by telling the international community to shove it, by declaring a war for an idée fixe –– this fierce obsession with Hussein goes back a long way –– the United States has made itself reviled in much of the world.