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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters;
- Example: "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

film noir
    n 1: a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism,
         menace, and cynical characters; "film noir was applied by
         French critics to describe American thriller or detective
         films in the 1940s"