Mot juste

Mot juste, noun: The exact or appropriate word or words. It is a French phrase sometimes used in English to signal literacy and that you have found the perfect word.

Example: “Train wreck in slow motion” is the mot juste for what is happening to the economy.

The photo is from our trip down the Grand Canyon in June 2004. One of the last trips when I used my Canon camera before switching to exclusively the iPhone camera.

“Mot juste” was encountered in the introduction to Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, translation and introduction by Greg Hayes