clair de lune
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French clair de lune (“moonlight”).
Noun[edit]
clair de lune
- A pale bluish-gray colour.
- clair de lune:
Adjective[edit]
clair de lune (not comparable)
- Of a pale bluish-gray colour.
Translations[edit]
bluish gray — see also blue-gray
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
clair de lune m (plural clairs de lune)
- moonlight
- 1869, Paul Verlaine, Clair de lune [Moonlight][1]:
- Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, / Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, / Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres / Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, / Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres.
- And their song blends with the moonlight, / With the sad and beautiful moonlight, / Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming, / And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy, / The tall slim water streams among the marble statues.
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