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Word: dormir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...fling at Paris with a reasonable chance of success. Lately, U.S. "progressive" jazzmen on tour have been meeting with mixed reactions from the uninhibited French, who boo at the drop of a diminished seventh, read newspapers while the music plays, shout "à l'operé!" or "à dormir!" when the music is too polite for their tastes. Worst of all for the progressive musicians, French Dixieland fans make a practice of invading modernist concerts just to snort and bellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Progressives Abroad | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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