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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A tedious passage in a work of literature or performing art: "longueurs and passages of meretricious vulgarity” ( Stephen Schiff).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Something that is long-drawn-out and tedious, as a passage in a book.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)

Etymologies

  1. From French longueur. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French longor, a protracted discussion, from long, long, from Latin longus; see longitude. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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