- film noir
- fiction in which mood, plot, etc. are like those of film noir
Origin of noir
Fr, black of or characteristic of noir or film noir
noun
Noir is French for black and is a type of fiction or a film that has tough characters and is cynical, bleak and pessimistic in nature.
An example of noir is the film Citizen Kane.
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noir
adjective
- Of or relating to the film noir genre.
- Of or relating to a genre of crime literature featuring tough, cynical characters and bleak settings.
- Suggestive of danger or violence.
Origin of noir
Short for film noir Sense 2, short for French roman noir black novelRelated Forms:
- noir′ish
adjective
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Adjective
(comparative more noir, superlative most noir)
- (film, TV) Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
Noun
(plural noirs)
- (film and TV) A production in the style of film noir
Origin
From film noir and French noir
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Sentence Examples
- I love the way Wim Wenders used this song on American Friend, his greatest homage to classic film noir.
- However, some of California's best wine comes out of Randall Grahm's Bonny Doon for mirth and Rhône style wines, Paul Draper's Ridge Winery for Cabernet Sauvignon (think 1976 Paris Tasting), and David Bruce for some excellent Pinot Noir.
- The ideal temperature to store Pinot Noir and other red wines is 52 degrees fahrenheit; however, a storage temperature that ranges from about 40 degrees to 65 degrees will work provided there is very little fluctuation in temperature.
- It wasn't until David Lett of Eyrie Vineyards in Dundee placed a Pinot Noir in the 1979 Gault-Millau French Wine Olympiades and landed in the top 10 that Oregon found its true calling as a producer of world-class Pinot Noir wines.
- The Venice of the fifties, and the characters that inhabit the boardwalk, make for a moody, almost 'noir' setting, and the characters, without being hard-bitten and cynical, would not be completely out of place in a Bogart movie.
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