noiradj.n.

Brit.

/nwɑː/, U.S.

/nwɑr/

Forms: late Middle English noyre, 1600s (1800s– after French feminine form) noire, 1700s– noir. Also with capital initial.

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

Etymology: < Middle French, French noir black (c1160 in Old French, also c1100 as neir ) < classical Latin niger black (see niger n.¹). With sense B. 1 compare French noire a woman with dark hair (c1310 in Old French). In senses A. 2 and B. 3 after film noir n. and adj. Compare also roman noir n.

A. adj.

1. Black, dark. Also figurative: bleak, desolate. (Frequently as postmodifier, after French use.)In quot. 1979 with punning reference to the phrase bête noire.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [adjective] > black

noira1425

sable1470

a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 140 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 130 Sawse noyre for capouns yrosted.

1799 T. R. Malthus Trav. Diaries 17 June (1966) 70 A great part of the two last stages presented as desolate & noir a picture as could well be seen.

1843 E. S. Wortley Moonshine iv. 69 As my dress is in tatters, I write three or four lines to calm your feelings, and beg you to have a double-flounced gown, and a bonnet of dentelle noire, ready for me to put on immediately that I rejoin you.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. v. 110 Mrs. Cashman, the housekeeper, had carte blanche, or rather carte noire, for the habiliments of woe.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 117 A shield Showing a shower of blood in a field noir.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Jan. b6 There is a beat noire about several of the other songs... The picture the Clash paints of contemporary middle—and lower—class British life is noire, indeed.

1990 Punch 13 July 2 (advt.) Free [bag] with any purchase of two products or more from the noir range (including one Aftershave or Eau de Toilette).

2. That is in the style of a film noir; gloomy and fatalistic in character; (also) using cinematic devices such as wide angles and partial lighting; urban, morally ambiguous, anti-heroic. Cf. film noir n. and adj.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types

costumed1851

foreign language1904

first run1910

Keystone1912

photodramatic1914

serial1915

coming of age1919

edge-of-your-seat1922

psychodramatic1927

omnibus1928

straight1936

low-budget1937

no-budget1937

screwball1937

Ealing1939

blockbusting1943

private eye1946

film noir1952

white telephone1952

portmanteau1953

uncut1953

anthology1955

three-D1955

Hammer1958

noir1958

co-production1959

kitchen sink1959

kidult1960

docudrama1961

cinéma vérité1963

maudit1963

filmi1965

indie1968

triple-X1969

XXX1969

drama-documentary1970

cheapie1973

gross-out1973

high concept1973

chopsocky1974

hard R1974

buddy movie1975

sci-fi1977

mondo1979

hack-and-slash1981

microbudget1981

hack-and-slay1982

slice-and-dice1982

fly on the wall1983

psychotronic1983

noirish1985

Mad Max1986

stoner1987

bonkbusting1993

straight to DVD1997

1958 Times 1 Sept. 3/1 Jezebel is said to have remarkable theatrical merit, and to be unmistakably noire.

1989 Atlantic Apr. 97/3 We see the best of breed in all the most vital genres of the time—screwball comedies, crime dramas, noir romances—were made elsewhere.

1991 D. Allberry Walking Distance 47 She likes the sleek noir gleam of the cruising cars, the backlit group of boys across the street.

2002 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 21 Jan. 52 Leonard's new box-office clout also attracted Soderbergh, who fashioned a noir gem from Out of Sight, a film that Leonard calls ‘great’.

B. n.

†1. A person with black hair. Obsolete. rare.

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1687 A. Behn Emperor of Moon i. i. 6 I cou'd not tell which I shou'd look on most, sometimes my heart was charm'd with the gay Blonding, then with the Melancholy Noire, annon the amiable brunet.

a. Cards. The black colours in the game of rouge et noir (see rouge et noir n. 1).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > Rouge et Noir > colour

red1793

noir1805

rouge1805

couleur1867

1805 New Pocket Hoyle 117 He then deals the first card with its face upwards, saying Noir, and continues dealing, until the cards turned exceed thirty points in number.

1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 343 The first parcel of cards played, is usually for noir, the second for rouge.

1928 M. Carol How to play Roulette iv. 56 The even money chances [in the game of rouge et noir] are Rouge or Red, Noir or Black, Coleur [sic] and Inverse.

1964 A. Wykes Gambling vii. 171 (caption) The dealer lays out two rows of cards (le noir and le rouge) until each totals 31 or more. Players bet that one or the other row will be nearer to 31 by placing chips on rouge or on noir.

b. The black numbers in the game of roulette.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > roulette > [noun] > numbers or colours

black1793

red1793

rouge1835

impair1850

noir1850

pair1867

1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 348 The other chances are also designated on the green cloth.., ‘le pair, le passe, et le noir’.

1939 T. King 21 Games to play for Money 31 Even chances are given when a stake is placed on:..Noir, meaning any black number that turns up.

1964 A. Wykes Gambling ix. 215 The European betting table is divided into six areas labelled pair, impair, passe, manque, rouge, and noir (even, odd, high, low, red, black).

1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 7 Jan. 7 A roulette table has six even-chance possibilities: rouge and noir (red and black), even and odd numbers (pair and impair), and high and low numbers (passe and manque).

3. A genre of crime film or detective fiction characterized by cynicism, sleaziness, fatalism, and moral ambiguity; film noir. Also: a film or novel in this genre. Cf. film noir n. and adj.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types

romantic comedy1748

epic1785

pre-release1871

foreign film1899

frivol1903

dramedy1905

film loop1906

first run1910

detective film1911

colour film1912

news film1912

topical1912

cinemicrograph1913

scenic1913

sport1913

newsreel1914

serial1914

sex comedy1915

war picture1915

telefilm1919

comic1920

true crime1923

art house1925

quickie1926

turkey1927

two-reeler1928

smellie1929

disaster film1930

musical1930

feelie1931

sticky1934

action comedy1936

quota quickie1936

re-release1936

screwball comedy1937

telemovie1937

pickup1939

video film1939

actioner1940

space opera1941

telepic1944

biopic1947

kinescope1949

TV movie1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

deepie1953

misterioso1953

film noir1956

policier1956

psychodrama1956

free film1958

prequel1958

co-production1959

glossy1960

sexploiter1960

sci-fier1961

tie-in1962

chanchada1963

romcom1963

wuxia1963

chick flick1964

showreel1964

mockumentary1965

sword-and-sandal1965

schlockbuster1966

mondo1967

peplum1968

thriller1968

whydunit1968

schlocker1969

buddy-buddy movie1972

buddy-buddy film1974

buddy film1974

science-fictioner1974

screwball1974

buddy movie1975

slasher movie1975

swashbuckler1975

filmi1976

triptych1976

autobiopic1977

Britcom1977

kidflick1977

noir1977

bodice-ripper1979

chopsocky1981

date movie1983

kaiju eiga1984

screener1986

neo-noir1987

indie1990

bromance2001

hack-and-slash2002

mumblecore2005

dark fantasy2007

hack-and-slay2007

gorefest2012

kidult-

1962 G. N. Fenin & W. K. Everson Western xiv. 278 Making the most consistent contributions to what one might facetiously term ‘le Western noir’ was Anthony Mann, a director brought up on hard-bitten city thrillers.]

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Jan. k1 Films that overflow with evil and discontent..two of the really classic noirs, ‘Out of the Past’ and ‘Kiss Me Deadly’, are on the AFI series.

1986 City Limits 15 Jan. 23 The film becomes a playful, fantastic evocation of noir, escape movie, and comedy all rolled into one.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 36/2 It is a marriage of two genres: the noir, in which actions are dictated by undead evil from the past, and the caper novel.

2000 D. Todd in N. Rafter Shots in Mirror i. 28 At first glance, Gun Crazy seems to provide merely another portrait of noir's femme fatale.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	noir
释义	noiradj.n. Brit. /nwɑː/, U.S. /nwɑr/ Forms: late Middle English noyre, 1600s (1800s– after French feminine form) noire, 1700s– noir. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French noir. Etymology: < Middle French, French noir black (c1160 in Old French, also c1100 as neir ) < classical Latin niger black (see niger n.¹). With sense B. 1 compare French noire a woman with dark hair (c1310 in Old French). In senses A. 2 and B. 3 after film noir n. and adj. Compare also roman noir n. A. adj. 1. Black, dark. Also figurative: bleak, desolate. (Frequently as postmodifier, after French use.)In quot. 1979 with punning reference to the phrase bête noire. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [adjective] > black noira1425 sable1470 a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 140 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 130 Sawse noyre for capouns yrosted. 1799 T. R. Malthus Trav. Diaries 17 June (1966) 70 A great part of the two last stages presented as desolate & noir a picture as could well be seen. 1843 E. S. Wortley Moonshine iv. 69 As my dress is in tatters, I write three or four lines to calm your feelings, and beg you to have a double-flounced gown, and a bonnet of dentelle noire, ready for me to put on immediately that I rejoin you. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. v. 110 Mrs. Cashman, the housekeeper, had carte blanche, or rather carte noire, for the habiliments of woe. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 117 A shield Showing a shower of blood in a field noir. 1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Jan. b6 There is a beat noire about several of the other songs... The picture the Clash paints of contemporary middle—and lower—class British life is noire, indeed. 1990 Punch 13 July 2 (advt.) Free [bag] with any purchase of two products or more from the noir range (including one Aftershave or Eau de Toilette). 2. That is in the style of a film noir; gloomy and fatalistic in character; (also) using cinematic devices such as wide angles and partial lighting; urban, morally ambiguous, anti-heroic. Cf. film noir n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types costumed1851 foreign language1904 first run1910 Keystone1912 photodramatic1914 serial1915 coming of age1919 edge-of-your-seat1922 psychodramatic1927 omnibus1928 straight1936 low-budget1937 no-budget1937 screwball1937 Ealing1939 blockbusting1943 private eye1946 film noir1952 white telephone1952 portmanteau1953 uncut1953 anthology1955 three-D1955 Hammer1958 noir1958 co-production1959 kitchen sink1959 kidult1960 docudrama1961 cinéma vérité1963 maudit1963 filmi1965 indie1968 triple-X1969 XXX1969 drama-documentary1970 cheapie1973 gross-out1973 high concept1973 chopsocky1974 hard R1974 buddy movie1975 sci-fi1977 mondo1979 hack-and-slash1981 microbudget1981 hack-and-slay1982 slice-and-dice1982 fly on the wall1983 psychotronic1983 noirish1985 Mad Max1986 stoner1987 bonkbusting1993 straight to DVD1997 1958 Times 1 Sept. 3/1 Jezebel is said to have remarkable theatrical merit, and to be unmistakably noire. 1989 Atlantic Apr. 97/3 We see the best of breed in all the most vital genres of the time—screwball comedies, crime dramas, noir romances—were made elsewhere. 1991 D. Allberry Walking Distance 47 She likes the sleek noir gleam of the cruising cars, the backlit group of boys across the street. 2002 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 21 Jan. 52 Leonard's new box-office clout also attracted Soderbergh, who fashioned a noir gem from Out of Sight, a film that Leonard calls ‘great’. B. n. †1. A person with black hair. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1687 A. Behn Emperor of Moon i. i. 6 I cou'd not tell which I shou'd look on most, sometimes my heart was charm'd with the gay Blonding, then with the Melancholy Noire, annon the amiable brunet. 2. a. Cards. The black colours in the game of rouge et noir (see rouge et noir n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > Rouge et Noir > colour red1793 noir1805 rouge1805 couleur1867 1805 New Pocket Hoyle 117 He then deals the first card with its face upwards, saying Noir, and continues dealing, until the cards turned exceed thirty points in number. 1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 343 The first parcel of cards played, is usually for noir, the second for rouge. 1928 M. Carol How to play Roulette iv. 56 The even money chances [in the game of rouge et noir] are Rouge or Red, Noir or Black, Coleur [sic] and Inverse. 1964 A. Wykes Gambling vii. 171 (caption) The dealer lays out two rows of cards (le noir and le rouge) until each totals 31 or more. Players bet that one or the other row will be nearer to 31 by placing chips on rouge or on noir. b. The black numbers in the game of roulette. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > roulette > [noun] > numbers or colours black1793 red1793 rouge1835 impair1850 noir1850 pair1867 1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 348 The other chances are also designated on the green cloth.., ‘le pair, le passe, et le noir’. 1939 T. King 21 Games to play for Money 31 Even chances are given when a stake is placed on:..Noir, meaning any black number that turns up. 1964 A. Wykes Gambling ix. 215 The European betting table is divided into six areas labelled pair, impair, passe, manque, rouge, and noir (even, odd, high, low, red, black). 1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 7 Jan. 7 A roulette table has six even-chance possibilities: rouge and noir (red and black), even and odd numbers (pair and impair), and high and low numbers (passe and manque). 3. A genre of crime film or detective fiction characterized by cynicism, sleaziness, fatalism, and moral ambiguity; film noir. Also: a film or novel in this genre. Cf. film noir n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1962 G. N. Fenin & W. K. Everson Western xiv. 278 Making the most consistent contributions to what one might facetiously term ‘le Western noir’ was Anthony Mann, a director brought up on hard-bitten city thrillers.] 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Jan. k1 Films that overflow with evil and discontent..two of the really classic noirs, ‘Out of the Past’ and ‘Kiss Me Deadly’, are on the AFI series. 1986 City Limits 15 Jan. 23 The film becomes a playful, fantastic evocation of noir, escape movie, and comedy all rolled into one. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 36/2 It is a marriage of two genres: the noir, in which actions are dictated by undead evil from the past, and the caper novel. 2000 D. Todd in N. Rafter Shots in Mirror i. 28 At first glance, Gun Crazy seems to provide merely another portrait of noir's femme fatale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1425
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