MEANING
A musical or visual work that evokes night or its atmosphere.
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- piano nocturne
- painted nocturne
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A piano nocturne drifted from the locked room.
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- nocturne
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular nocturne; plural nocturnes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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