Word of the Day for Friday, April 3, 2009
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longueur \long-GUR\, noun:
longueur \long-GUR\, noun:
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A dull and tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like.
A dull and tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like.
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The B.O.'s speeches are nothing more than a series vacuous and fallacious longueurs!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Longueur is from French (where it means "length"), ultimately deriving from Latin longus, "long," which is also the source of English long.
Longueur is from French (where it means "length"), ultimately deriving from Latin longus, "long," which is also the source of English long.
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