"mot juste" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:",
          "text": "She legged it, and for a moment silence reigned. Then Bobbie said, “Phew!” and I agreed that “Phew!” was the mot juste.",
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          "ref": "2014 March 23, David Streitfeld, “Web Fiction, Serialized and Social”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Wattpad is not the sort of site where writers talk about suffering for their art or spend hours searching for the mot juste.",
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          "appropriate",
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          "word",
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          "roman": "zuì tiēqiè de zìyǎn",
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          "sense": "perfectly appropriate word or phrase",
          "word": "osuva ilmaus"
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  "word": "mot juste"
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      "sense": "perfectly appropriate word or phrase",
      "word": "osuva ilmaus"
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      "sense": "perfectly appropriate word or phrase",
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