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clair de lune

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clair de lune

  [klair dl-oon, duh loon]
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–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.
Origin:
1875–80; < F: lit., moonlight

Clair de Lune

  [klair--dl-oon, duh-loon; Fr. kler-duh lyn]
–noun
a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
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clair de lune   (klâr' də lōōn')   
n.  

  1. A pale, grayish-blue glaze applied to various kinds of Chinese porcelain.

  2. The color of such a glaze.


[French : clair, light + de, of + lune, moon.]
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