Thursday, October 27, 2011

TODAY'S WORD

NOIR

adj. 1. Black, dark. Also fig. : bleak, desolate.

2. That is in the style of a film noir; gloomy and fatalistic in character; (also) using cinematic devices such as wide angles and partial lighting; urban, morally ambiguous, anti-heroic.
Film noir, n.

n. 1. A person with black hair.

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