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Nouvelle vague

//nuːˌvɛl ˈvɑːɡ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An influential French film movement of the 1950s and 1960s which experimented radically in editing, visual style and narrative uncountable

    "The light of the nouvelle vague—the “new wave” in French cinema that crested in the early sixties—was special."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of nouvelle vague. alt-of, uncountable
  3. 3
    an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s wordnet
  4. 4
    A new movement in art or society. broadly, uncountable

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French nouvelle vague (literally “new wave”).

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