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noc⋅turne

  [nok-turn]
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–noun Music.
1. a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
2. an instrumental composition of a dreamy or pensive character.
Origin:
1860–65; < F nocturne. See nocturn
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noc·turne   (nŏk'tûrn')   
n.  

  1. A painting of a night scene.

  2. An instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood, especially one for the piano.


[French, from Old French, nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus; see nocturnal.]
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Word Origin & History

nocturne 
1862, "composition of a dreamy character," from Fr. nocturne, lit. "composition appropriate to the night," noun use of O.Fr. nocturne "nocturnal," from L. nocturnus (see nocturnal). Said to have been coined c.1814 by John Field, who wrote many of them, in a style that Chopin mastered in his own works, which popularized the term.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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