(n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found to be a condition of parr in their second summer, but also occasionally of young adult fish (smolts and grilse) which have adapted to salt water.
Grise
Definition:
(pl. ) of Gree
(n.) See Grice, a pig.
(n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Tony Blair has become Sisi's éminence grise and is working on the economic plan that the UAE is paying for.
(2) In a pre-Bridesmaids world, the name Paul Feig would have meant little, save to a loyal hardcore of 90s coming-of-age TV fans who saw him as the eminence grise behind Judd Apatow's comic empire.
(3) Law and Justice’s eminence grise – part Yoda, part Karl Lagerfeld – runs a country of almost 40 million people from his party office in central Warsaw.
(4) As the grisest of Westminster éminences grises, it should have been him that got to pronounce on the health of the intelligence services.
(5) Before his death in 2011, Richard Hamilton went from enfant terrible to éminence grise of British pop art, famous for his collages such as Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
(6) Ormsby-Gore became an éminence grise to Kennedy, closer to him even than some White House advisors.
(7) But if the president has thrown in with the neocons and War Party, and we are plunging back into the Mideast maelstrom, Trump should know that many of those who helped to nominate and elect him – to keep us out of unnecessary wars – may not be standing by him.” Kristol: Trump ‘Mugged by Reality’ Publication : The Weekly Standard, Kristol Clear podcast Author: Michael Graham fulfills his appointed weekly role of tossing flattery and softball questions in the few gaps in a rant by William Kristol, neocon eminence grise, war fan, and Weekly Standard founder.
(8) But Saturday's last-minute registration of Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful former president and the pragmatic éminence grise of Iranian politics for decades, has dramatically overturned the assumption that this will be a contest only between dyed-in-the-wool conservatives.
(9) Mubarak, commander of the air force before becoming president in 1981, is still surrounded by trusted generals, including Omar Suleiman, his veteran intelligence chief and éminence grise, and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the defence minister and chief of staff.
(10) Conservative eminence grise Phyllis Schlafly believes Obama is allowing it into the country deliberately .
(11) Roger Ailes , Fox News chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch’s closest general and èminence grise to a gallery of Republican presidents, was negotiating his exit from a job he has held for 20 years, his reputation in shreds amid allegations of sexual impropriety at the network – the latest reportedly from Fox News’s brightest star.
(12) The unique system of Islamic governance created by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic's éminence grise , may be tested to breaking point.
(13) And [I’m] proud to be a part of it.” But he dismissed claims levelled by the former president that Lynne Cheney, his wife, as well as his daughter Liz Cheney, had been the “eminence grises” behind his vice-presidency.
(14) If he is not as famous as he deserves, it is partly because he liked to play the behind-the-scenes role of the mentor, the guru, the éminence grise.