See tour de force on Wiktionary
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tour de force",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tours de force",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "tour<f,s> de force",
"nolinkhead": "1"
},
"expansion": "tour de force f (genitive tour de force, plural tours de force)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "tour<f,s> de force"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Tour de Force"
}
],
"categories": [
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German feminine nouns",
"German lemmas",
"German multiword terms",
"German nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of Tour de Force"
],
"links": [
[
"Tour de Force",
"Tour de Force#German"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "tour de force"
}
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