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longueur - What does it mean?

Definition of 'longueur'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.
  • * 2002 , , 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 [...].
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