Lumière

American  

[ly-myer] / lüˈmyɛr /

noun

1. Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.

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Lumière British  

/ lymjɛr /

noun

1. Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (oɡyst mari lwi nikɔlɑ). 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean (lwi ʒɑ̃), 1864–1948, French chemists and cinema pioneers, who invented a cinematograph and a process of colour photography

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Example Sentences

Agoria — that boom and chirp from successive speakers, creating a son et lumière roundelay.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2015

There was a son et lumière set in the model of Rye town where I lived as a child.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012

Thirty years on, Jarre took off on a tour of European capitals to put on the kind of spectacular son et lumière shows matched only by Pink Floyd at their most overblown.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2010

In France, mère des armes, des arts et des lois, at Paris, ville lumière, cite des passions.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Yes, above all in the plural, seeing that then it rhymes not with three letters, but with four; as ornière does with lumière."

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre