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Noir (or noire) is the French word for black. It may also refer to: Places. Noire River (Ottawa River tributary), in the Outaouais region of Quebec;
The word "noir" was used by the Paris-based publisher Gallimard in 1945 as the title for its Série Noire crime fiction imprint. In the English-speaking world, the term originated as a cinematic one—film noir. [2] This term again first appeared in France, in 1946, [3] though it did not enjoy wide use until the 1970s. [10]
In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese (from Latin niger), where English took it from. [1]
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The anticipated sixth season of “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” will world premiere in the U.S. on Jan. 25, on Disney Channel and Disney XD, while the international rollouts will ...
Ater has vanished from the vocabulary, but niger was the source of the country name Nigeria, [12] the English word Negro, and the word for "black" in most modern Romance languages (French: noir; Spanish and Portuguese: negro; Italian: nero; Romanian: negru). Old High German also had two words for black: swartz for dull black and blach for a ...
The desert will again be a hotbed of deceit and larceny in luxurious black-and-white as the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns to Palm Springs this Thursday through Sunday, with the ...
The first table lists the 100 most common word forms from the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA), a text corpus compiled by the Real Academia Española (RAE). The RAE is Spain's official institution for documenting, planning, and standardising the Spanish language. A word form is any of the grammatical variations of a word.