[Fr. = length.] A lengthy or tedious passage of writing.
1821. Byron, Juan, III. xcvii. I know that what our neighbours call ‘longueurs,’ (We’ve not so good a word, but have the thing,)… Form not the true temptation which allures The reader.
1887. Dowden, Life Shelley, I. v. 183. Admirable moralists, no doubt, were Fenelon and Marmontel, but there are longueurs in their writings.
