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ombres chinoises

ombres chinoises noun: a type of shadow puppetry where silhouettes of figures, often cardboard cutouts, are projected onto a screen to tell stories.

Noun

ombres chinoises pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) A type of shadow puppetry where silhouettes of figures, often cardboard cutouts, are projected onto a screen to tell stories.

Origin of ombres chinoises

From French ombres chinoises (literally “Chinese shadows”).

Questions about ombres chinoises

What does ombres chinoises mean?
Ombres chinoises means a type of shadow puppetry where silhouettes of figures, often cardboard cutouts, are projected onto a screen to tell stories.
What part of speech is ombres chinoises?
Ombres chinoises is a noun.

Words near ombres chinoises in the dictionary

  1. ombliferous
  2. ombre
  3. ombrella
  4. ombrellas
  5. ombres
  6. ombres chinoises
  7. ombrifuge
  8. ombro-
  9. ombrogenous
  10. ombrograph
  11. ombrographs

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