English

Noun

longueur ‎(plural longueurs)

1. 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 [...].

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃.ɡœʁ/

Noun

longueur f ‎(plural longueurs)

1. length

Related terms

• longue