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Dreamy piano piece
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nocturne
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Word definitions for nocturne in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had the unfinished nocturne and the portrait. ▪ Her flexible tempos breathe naturally, and she frequently makes the nocturnes sound as if they could be sung. ▪ I continued to work on the Chopin nocturnes, kept on studying ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nocturne is a 1946 black-and-white film noir starring George Raft and Lynn Bari . The film was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison , scripted by Jonathan Latimer , and directed by Edwin L. Marin .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nocturne \Noc*turne"\, n. [F. See Nocturn .] (Mus.) A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's ``Midsummer-Night's Dream'' ...
Usage examples of nocturne.
Nocturne of the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, the Gavotte of the Yellow Ladies, the Gigue of the Mill, the Prelude of the Drops of Water, and so on.
One was a scene of the Embankment at night, the other a nocturne, Tower Bridge by moonlight, a barquentine drifting downriver.
And he told me of a conversation he overheard between the leaders of the Strychnos and Nocturne guilds.
He was not allowed to leave the halls, but dwelt in a monastic nocturne, not knowing whether Freyr and Batalix swam separately or together in the sky.
Translated into sheet music, a portion of mouse ribonucleic acid sounds like a lively waltz, very similar to Chopin's Nocturne, Opus 55, No.
The irate man with the briefcase followed unobtrusively, although he seemed more interested in what was going to become of Sally Ryan than he was in what might have happened to Nicholas Nocturne.