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‖ son et lumière
(sɒn eɪ ˈluːmiːɛə(r), ‖ sɔn e lymjɛr)
Also with capital initials.
[Fr., lit. ‘sound and light’.]
1. A form of entertainment using recorded sound and lighting effects, usu. presented at night at a historic building and giving a dramatic narrative of its history. Also attrib.
1957Times 1 Aug. 10/1 A dinner party..on the occasion of the preview of the Son et Lumière spectacle. Ibid. 13 Aug. 11/1 In the five years since M. Paul Robert-Houdin first introduced the technique at..Chambord, son et lumière has been adopted at..buildings of historic interest in France. 1959Times 30 June 12/4 Son et lumière performances are being given this week, starting to-night at Greys Court, Henley-on-Thames. 1969V. Rowe Loire 33 At Chambord, in 1952, a new kind of entertainment was born, son-et-lumière, a combination of sound and light effects. 1970N. Fleming Czech Point (1971) xvi. 205, I felt as visible as a statue in a Son et Lumière display. 1977J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe i. 19 A few years ago we had son et lumière in aid of some building project.
2. fig. Writing or behaviour resembling a son et lumière presentation, esp. in its dramatic qualities.
1968Punch 16 Oct. 557/3 The effects are produced by a literary son et lumière—by liberal direct quotation of anecdotes, poetry, hymns and music, and a series of splendid photographs, rather than words about palaces. 1969Listener 9 Jan. 41/1 Old Mr Seddeby's performance, from 11 o'clock to one daily, as an elder statesman in decline, an illusion which involved a lot of business with a monocle and a cigar-cutter, was pure son et lumière. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Mar. 336/3 It would have been all too easy to end this biography in son et lumière and to paint a Tiepolo ceiling on which Forster is floating up to Olympus. |