lon·gueur 
(lông-gûr, lŏng-)
(lông-gûr, lŏng-)n.
A tedious passage in a work of literature or performing art: "longueurs and passages of meretricious vulgarity" (Stephen Schiff).
[French, from Old French longor, a protracted discussion, from long, long, from Latin longus; see LONGITUDE.]
- microsatellite
- microscope
- microscopic
- microscopical
- microscopically
- microscopist
- Microscopium
- microscopy
- microsecond
- microseism
- microseismic
- microsensor
- microsleep
- microsomal
- microsome
- microsomic
- microsporangiate
- microsporangium
- microspore
- microsporic
- microsporocyte
- microsporogenesis
- microsporophyll
- microsporous
- microstate