Milieu \Mi`lieu"\ (m[-e]*ly[~e]"), n. [F., fr. mi middle (L. medius) + lieu place. See {Demi-}, {Lieu}.] Environment.
The intellectual and moral milieu created by multitudes of self-centered, cultivated personalities. --J. A. Symonds.
It is one of the great outstanding facts of his progressive relation to the elements of his social milieu. --J. M. Baldwin. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Mark Knopfler was fond of introducing his group in concert as the "Dire Straits rock 'n' roll band," and it has been that milieu, not his session work or his film scores, that stands as his highest testament.
Dispensing with grand opera's heavy drapes, Mr. Hall paints a casually decadent, intimate milieu.
Grimod also called for a coup du milieu: a glass of spirits used to reactivate the appetite in the middle of a lengthy dinner or banquet.
You sense the atmospheres of different rooms, various relationships, and the mental climate of each milieu.
It's a very closed milieu.
She continues as editor and spiritual leader of the magazine, and that entails regular late-night visits to Manhattan's downtown club scene, the milieu where Details first made its mark.
Such plays as "The Birthday Party" and "The Homecoming" examined the sour, even horrifying underside of domestic rituals. Their working-class milieu reflects Pinter's early life as the son of a Jewish tailor from London's East End.
Au milieu (1981) is like a Clementi study run wild: scales that tumble over themselves, replicate, accumulate and eventually colonise the whole keyboard.
Financiers sometimes use the OTC market for low-profile ventures they prefer to be lost in the milieu of more than 5,000 issues that trade on Nasdaq alone.
"By choosing to work in the paramilitary milieu of the City Correction Department, guards voluntarily sacrifice certain cherished freedoms," the court held.
Madonna got her start in dance clubs, and "You Can Dance" is an obvious tribute to the disco milieu, where stamina and dependability are more valuable than intellect any day.
Good grief, Jip the dog is more memorable than the characters in most of last week's television dramas. There was one programme which did have something of Dickens' power to evoke the very smell of its milieu.
Today it is drastically different, because of the social milieu.