"cause celebre" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cause celebres",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "cause celebre (plural cause celebres)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "cause célèbre"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Anthony Sweeting, “A MIDDLEMAN FOR ALL SEASONS: SNAPSHOTS OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOK MAN CHEUNG AND HIS \"ENGLISH MADE EASY\"”, in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 27, page 62",
          "text": "Shortly after he left Government service as a translator at the Supreme Court, the cause celebre was the assassination of a radically-minded (Sun Yat-sen supporting) school teacher in his own classroom by gunmen hired by the police chief in Canton.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 24, Alex von Tunzelmann, “The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Rubin \"Hurricane\" Carter, who died this week, was a boxer in the United States. He was convicted of a 1966 triple homicide in two trials and became a cause celebre, inspiring Bob Dylan's song Hurricane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cause célèbre"
      ],
      "id": "en-cause_celebre-en-noun-2JDO6dxd",
      "links": [
        [
          "cause célèbre",
          "cause célèbre#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US) Alternative form of cause célèbre"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cause celebre"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cause celebres",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "cause celebre (plural cause celebres)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "cause célèbre"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Anthony Sweeting, “A MIDDLEMAN FOR ALL SEASONS: SNAPSHOTS OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOK MAN CHEUNG AND HIS \"ENGLISH MADE EASY\"”, in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 27, page 62",
          "text": "Shortly after he left Government service as a translator at the Supreme Court, the cause celebre was the assassination of a radically-minded (Sun Yat-sen supporting) school teacher in his own classroom by gunmen hired by the police chief in Canton.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 24, Alex von Tunzelmann, “The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Rubin \"Hurricane\" Carter, who died this week, was a boxer in the United States. He was convicted of a 1966 triple homicide in two trials and became a cause celebre, inspiring Bob Dylan's song Hurricane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cause célèbre"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cause célèbre",
          "cause célèbre#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US) Alternative form of cause célèbre"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cause celebre"
}