“Game 3 of the World Series was a stone-cold thriller, with peaks of high drama and longueurs [lɔŋˈɡər] of exquisitely tense tedium ...” — Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025

longueur
noun [lɔŋˈɡər]

Longueur refers to a boring part of something (such as a book or play). It is usually used in the plural form.

The French borrowing longueur has been doing the job for us since the late 18th century.

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