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  clair de lune

  noun

  a pale-green color.
• Clair de Lune
  Clair de Lune

  noun

  a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.

clair de lune

¹ American  

[klair dl-oon, duh loon] / ˌklɛər dlˈun, də ˈlun /

noun

1. a pale-green color.

2. a very pale blue color, tinged with lavender, used as a glaze on Chinese porcelain.

3. porcelain glazed with this color.

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Clair de Lune ² American  

[klair dl oon, duh loon, kler duh lyn] / ˌklɛər dl ˈun, də ˈlun, klɛr də ˈlün /

noun

1. a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.

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Etymology

Origin of clair de lune

1875–80; < French: literally, moonlight

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A color may be baked on: T'ang red, clair de lune blue, Ming green, rose du Barry, orchid de Vincennes, etc., etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President himself approved the menu right down to the clair de lune dessert, a sphere of ice cream topped with a tiny American flag.

From Time Magazine Archive

"A clair de lune that ends in lune de miel, that is the true use to which to put the charms of Diana."

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

Well, it doesn't have to be that way, as Japanese ambient artist and DJ Susumu Yokota proves with Purple Rose Minuet, which helenf888 points out is based on Claude Debussy's lovely Clair de Lune.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012

Falco has several Broadway credits, including "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" and "'night, Mother."

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2010

His music gives me the same kind of tingling effect as Debussy's Clair de Lune, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake or Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reverse is also true: into Tea for Two may creep a few bars of Debussy's Clair de Lune.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I can play Clair de Lune or The Maiden with Flaxen Hair, I’m a free man.”

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck