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‖ clou|klu|
[Fr., = nail.]
That which holds the attention; the chief attraction, point of greatest interest, or central idea.
1883Daily News 4 Aug. 5/1 The degree of copyright in the central idea, or ‘clou’, as it is called in France, of a drama or romance. 1904Amer. Inventor 1 Aug. 337 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.), The displays of finished goods, each containing some ‘clou’, such as a $5,000 blanket in the blanket section. 1907Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 14/3 The new 30-h.p. six-cylinder Napier chassis..is, of course, the clou of the Napier exhibit. 1918Quiller-Couch Studies Lit. iii. 67 This epigrammatic clou, of all things, Milton wished to avoid. 1927Observer 25 Sept. 18 The ‘clou’ of the evening, a new string quartet by Arnold Schönberg. 1959Ibid. 24 May 19/7 The clou of the ballet is to be found in these four female solos. |