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‖ nuit blanche|nɥi blɑ̃ʃ|
[Fr., lit. ‘white night’.]
A sleepless night. Also fig.
1853C. Brontë Villette III. xli. 296 Leaving the radiant park and well-lit Haute-Ville (still well-lit, for this it seems was to be a ‘nuit blanche’ in Villette), I sought the dim lower quarter. 1904W. Stevens Let. 14 Feb. (1967) 69, I do not want my dreams—my castles, my hunts, my nuits blanches. 1923D. H. Lawrence Ladybird 81 She had gone to sleep from the nuit blanche of her days. 1964L. Meynell More Deadly than Male xiv. 244 He lay awake for the rest of the night. A nuit blanche. |