largeur

A French term directing the musicians to perform the indicated passage of the composition with a broad tempo, or fairly slow. Similar to lent, meaning slow, and is used to designate a tempo range from largo to lento or a metronome marking from around 40 to 60 beats per minute.

a boring part a boring part of something, especially a book, film, etc.: Despite the occasional longueurs, this is an impressive first novel.

A ledger line or leger line is used in Western musical notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and spaces of the regular musical staff. A line slightly longer than the note head is drawn parallel to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distance as the lines within the staff.

English speakers began using the French borrowing longueur in the late 18th century.

When someone says “a big instrument”, you'll usually think of a tuba, a contrabass, a grand piano, or maybe a church organ, but the ones we're about to list here are the exceptions.

large. The slang large, meaning a thousand dollars, likely comes from the fact that thousands of dollars would be a large amount of money for most people.

boulevardier. / (buːlˈvɑːdɪˌeɪ) / noun. (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places.

a long reclining chair : a long reclining chair.

The word leggiero is Italian for 'light' or 'lightly'. The term is used on a musical score – typically in relation to swift passages – to indicate the musician should play the relevant section with a light, delicate and graceful touch.

The Italian musical term leggiero means “lightly,” and can be used as: A dynamics command; an indication to play lightly in piano or mezzo piano. A tempo command; to play between allegro and vivace.

His original title for the language was simply "the international language" (la lingvo internacia), but early speakers grew fond of the name Esperanto, and began to use it as the name for the language just two years after its creation.

Even the grammar of Esperanto is comparatively easy - once again for speakers of Germanic, Romance, or Slavic languages. For an English speaker, Esperanto does have some unexpected twists, two of which Lindstedt mentions in his article: the accusative case and the special marking for (in)transitive verbs.