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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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