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longueur

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lon·gueur  (lông-gûr, lng-)
n.
A tedious passage in a work of literature or performing art: "longueurs and passages of meretricious vulgarity" Stephen Schiff.
[French, from Old French longor, a protracted discussion, from long, long, from Latin longus; see longitude.]
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Noun1.longueur - a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
literature - creative writing of recognized artistic value
duration, continuance - the period of time during which something continues
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Of course, there are terrible longueurs in it, and you do get tired of the same story told over and over from the different points of view, and yet it is such a great story, and unfolded with such a magnificent breadth and noble fulness, that one who blames it lightly blames himself heavily.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
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