roman noirn.

Brit.

/rə(ʊ)ˌmɒ̃ ˈnwɑː/, U.S.

/roʊˌmɑn ˈnwɑr/

Inflections: Plural romans noirs.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French roman noir.

Etymology: < French roman noir (1816) < roman roman n.² + noir black (see noir adj.).Not fully naturalized in English. In plural form romans noirs after the French plural form.

A sensational or shocking novel (originally spec. a Gothic novel); a thriller (in later use frequently one which has a gloomy or fatalistic setting, or which features morally ambiguous characters; cf. noir adj. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller

sensation novel1856

penny dreadful1861

dime novel1864

curdler1872

dreadful1874

blood and thunder1876

penny awful1880

shilling dreadful1885

thrill1886

thriller1889

blood1892

terror novel1896

penny horrible1899

spine-thriller1912

roman noir1926

spine-chiller1940

scorcher1942

spine-tingler1942

spine-freezer1960

1926 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1924 232 Part II [of the book] examines the imitations and translations of the ‘roman noir’ in France and the part they played in the French ‘romantic movement’.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 151/4 The ‘Radcliffian’ novel, or roman noir, as the French call it.

1968 R. A. Brooks Crit. Bibliogr. Fr. Lit. IV. Suppl. 71 The Comte de Comminges also foreshadows the roman noir.

1971 J. Pope-Hennessy A. Trollope xvii. 364 We might claim..that An Eye for an Eye initiated the series of Trollope's romans noirs.

1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 8 Aug. c2/2 We meet him in Marc Savage's ‘Paradise’, a roman noir that is blacker than night.

2008 New Yorker (Nexis) 17 Mar. 41 Even in this Dostoyevskian roman noir of women on the edge..there are variants of class distinction.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	roman noir
释义	roman noirn. Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˌmɒ̃ ˈnwɑː/, U.S. /roʊˌmɑn ˈnwɑr/ Inflections: Plural romans noirs. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French roman noir. Etymology: < French roman noir (1816) < roman roman n.² + noir black (see noir adj.).Not fully naturalized in English. In plural form romans noirs after the French plural form. A sensational or shocking novel (originally spec. a Gothic novel); a thriller (in later use frequently one which has a gloomy or fatalistic setting, or which features morally ambiguous characters; cf. noir adj. 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller sensation novel1856 penny dreadful1861 dime novel1864 curdler1872 dreadful1874 blood and thunder1876 penny awful1880 shilling dreadful1885 thrill1886 thriller1889 blood1892 terror novel1896 penny horrible1899 spine-thriller1912 roman noir1926 spine-chiller1940 scorcher1942 spine-tingler1942 spine-freezer1960 1926 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1924 232 Part II [of the book] examines the imitations and translations of the ‘roman noir’ in France and the part they played in the French ‘romantic movement’. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 151/4 The ‘Radcliffian’ novel, or roman noir, as the French call it. 1968 R. A. Brooks Crit. Bibliogr. Fr. Lit. IV. Suppl. 71 The Comte de Comminges also foreshadows the roman noir. 1971 J. Pope-Hennessy A. Trollope xvii. 364 We might claim..that An Eye for an Eye initiated the series of Trollope's romans noirs. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 8 Aug. c2/2 We meet him in Marc Savage's ‘Paradise’, a roman noir that is blacker than night. 2008 New Yorker (Nexis) 17 Mar. 41 Even in this Dostoyevskian roman noir of women on the edge..there are variants of class distinction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1926
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