cadavre exquiscommon nounSyllable Decompositioncadavre exquisEtymologyexpandthe first example of this kind published by André Breton in 1925 begins as follows: the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.Definitions1. A collective game, invented around 1925 by the surrealists (André Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy), which aims to produce a text using fragments successively proposed by each player, each unaware of the proposals of their predecessors but knowing the nature (nominal, verbal, adjectival, complementary) that their proposal must take, so that the final text formed is grammatically correct.expandNos invités sont en retard ; en attendant, jouons au cadavre exquis.2. The result of the game, i.e., a grammatically correct text, formed of generally common words, but incomprehensible (most often used metaphorically).expandLe salmigondis des propositions gouvernementales est un vrai cadavre exquis.