longueur

From French longueur.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɒŋˈ(ɡ)əː/

longueur (plural longueurs)

1. (authorship) A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:

     He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round [...].

• Appendix:Glossary of authorship

long +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃.ɡœʁ/

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longueur f (plural longueurs)

1. length

• longue

• “longueur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).