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nocturne, n.|ˈnɒktɜːn|
Also -urn.
[a. F. nocturne (It. notturno): cf. nocturn n. and a.]
1. Mus. A composition of a dreamy character.
‘A name and form of composition the origin of which is due to John Field’ (Grove's Dict. Mus. II. 460).
1862T. A. Trollope Marietta I. vii. 130 He had attempted to compose some words for his nocturn. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. viii. 254 Christabel was playing slow sleepy nocturnes.
2. Painting. A night-piece, night-scene.
1874R. Tyrwhitt Sketch Club 300 Don't be bothered with symphonies and nocturns. c1880Whistler Let. to Leyland in Art Jrnl. Aug. 252, I can't thank you too much for the name ‘Nocturne’ as the title for my moonlights. Ibid., The Nocturne in blue and silver is one you don't know at all. 1882Cornh. Mag. Feb. 168 One is tempted to linger over these strange dream-pictures, these nocturnes [etc.].
3. Zool. (See quot.)
1900Nature 5 Apr. 552/2 In constant darkness, a nocturne (that is, a prawn in the nocturnal colour-phase) recovers to its diurnal colour.
Hence ˈnocturne v. intr., to assume the nocturnal colour.
1900Nature 5 Apr. 553/1 Blinded prawns nocturne and recover as completeley as normal ones. |