clair de lune

¹

[ klair dl-oon, duh loon ]

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.

Clair de Lune

²

[ klair dl oon, duh loon; French kler duh lyn ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of clair de lune¹

1875–80; < French: literally, moonlight

Example Sentences

The Duchess in Clair de Lune implored her gentleman friend to speak to her roughly, using hedge and highroad talk.

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Old Clair-de-Lune alone was fresh and ready, and able in his broken English to tell us what he wished.

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I did not wonder that old Clair-de-Lune was silent when he looked down upon a scene so grand.

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Night and morning Clair-de-Lune and the little girls found their way up to us with bread and meat and the news that was passing.

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Old Clair-de-Lune is with me, but silence is in the house below, where some sleep and some are seeking sleep.

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