Is Noire a French word?

Noir is French for black and is a type of fiction or a film that has tough characters and is cynical, bleak and pessimistic in nature. An example of noir is the film Citizen Kane.

Where does the term noir come from?

Film noir is not easily defined. The actual words come from French and mean “black cinema.” It was in France during the post-war years that the term was used to describe a certain set of Hollywood films that were saturated with a darkness and cynicism that was not seen before.

What’s the opposite of noir?

What is the opposite of noir?

brightened	illuminated
pellucid	flashing
glittering	shimmering
shining	lustrous
fulgurant	fulgurating

How do you use noir in a sentence?

Noir sentence example

On the Causse Noir is found the fantastic chaos of rocks and precipices known as Montpellier-le-Vieux, resembling the ruins of a huge city.
The graphical style is simple and the game has taken on a sort of 1930s film noir look to it.
Noir Detective – focused on a darker side of society.

What does noir mean?

“Noir” is definitely a French adjective, which means “black” for its first most common use. This word had also, a rather negative meaning, something like gloomy, sinister even “evil” (this last signification comes from older times).

What is the origin of the word Vif?

From Middle French vif, from Old French vif, from Latin vīvus (“alive, living”), from Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”).

What is the difference between Noire and s鲩E?

“Noire” is the feminine version of the word “noir”; in French the adjective is always depending on the genre of the name related to it. “S鲩e” is a feminine word.

“Sé²©e noire” is an expression in French that means: a succession of bad events, repeated bad luck â€¦etc; this is where Duhamel picked the title of his famous books series, and it was a play of words between the meaning of the expression and evoking of a literature that was not conformist,…