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Noir
//ˈnwɑɹ//
"Noir" in a Sentence (4 examples)
"Double Indemnity" is the title of a classic 1944 film noir, in which a philandering insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) and a housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) plot to murder her husband, but to make it look like an accident, in order to collect on an insurance policy that will pay double the value in case of accidental death.
You can't even say, "Pinot Noir."
As a neo-Sherlock Holmes, however, Mulder is also a very noir version of the classic detective (just as Scully is a very noir Watson).
Several noirs, including “Raw Deal,” have been set here.
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