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- French · borrowed fromnoir
- English todaynoir
Shortened from film noir, and from French noir. Doublet of negro.
Words from the same roots
Frenchnoir all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
noir
Today it means: Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre Full definition →
French noir