longueur (redirected from longueurs)

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).

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[French, from Old French longor, a protracted discussion, from long, long, from Latin longus; see longitude.]

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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