Lumière

[ ly-myer ]

noun

1. Au·guste Ma·rie Louis Ni·co·las [oh-, gyst, m, a, -, ree, lwee nee-kaw-, lah], 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean [lweezhah, n], 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.

Lumière

/ lymjɛr /

noun

1. LumièreAuguste Marie Louis Nicolas18621954MFrenchSCIENCE: chemistFILMS AND TV: pioneer Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (oɡyst mari lwi nikɔlɑ). 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean (lwi ʒɑ̃), 1864–1948, French chemists and cinema pioneers, who invented a cinematograph and a process of colour photography

Example Sentences

Thomas Edison and France’s Lumière brothers, for example, were great promoters and exploiters of early film technology.

From MIT Technology Review

“I put my bed in the center and all my art,” said artist Colette Lumiere, one of the originators of nightclub art.

From The Daily Beast

We give herewith, from La Lumiere Electrique, several engravings illustrating the system.

From Project Gutenberg

The characteristic of this pump is, according to La Lumiere Electrique, a tap of peculiar construction.

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En effet, lorsqu'elle apprit qu'il approchoit, elle le conjura haute voix de lui faire voir la lumiere.

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Yes, above all in the plural, seeing that then it rhymes not with three letters, but with four; as orniere does with lumiere.

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Mais le commun est qu'il a seulement trois cornes, & qu'il a quelque espece de lumiere en celle du milieu.

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