longueur

Borrowed 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.
   • 1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker‎:

     Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 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 [...].

long +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃.ɡœʁ/

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longueur f (plural longueurs)

1. length

• à longueur de journée
• à longueur de temps
• longue
• longueur d'onde
• saut en longueur
• sauteur en longueur

• “longueur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.