à contre-jour
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a kɔ̃.tʁə.ʒuʁ/
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Adverb
à contre-jour
- backlit
- (idiomatic) in the darkness; in the dark
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- Les rideaux de la maison restaient tirés en permanence. Nous vivios à contre-jour.
- The blinds were permanently pulled down. We lived in the darkness
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