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n. (alternative form of crime passionnel English)
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Crime Passionel is a 1959 Australian TV play. It was based on a play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Usage examples of "crime passionel".
X had strangled Helen in the hall, but afterwards he took her upstairs and arranged her artistically as a crime passionel on the bed, and that's where Kelvin is when he comes to.
It would be difficult to associate the crime passionel with any of our group.
The Central Statistics Bureau suspected her of having fled to France, Mallory assumed, because someone had appended translations of French policereports of 1854 dealing with a crime passionel trial in the Paris assizes.
The Central Statistics Bureau suspected her of having fled to France, Mallory assumed, because someone had appended translations of French police-reports of 1854 dealing with a crime passionel trial in the Paris assizes.