longueur
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French longueur.
Pronunciation
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Noun
longueur (plural longueurs)
- (authorship) A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:
- He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round [...].
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:
See also
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
longueur f (plural longueurs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “longueur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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