Lumière

[ ly-myer ]
/ lüˈmyɛr /

noun

Au·guste Ma·rie Louis Ni·co·las [oh-gyst ma-ree lwee nee-kaw-lah] /oʊˈgüst maˈri lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/,1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean [lwee zhahn] /lwi ʒɑ̃/, 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.

Example sentences from the Web for lumiere

  • Yes, above all in the plural, seeing that then it rhymes not with three letters, but with four; as orniere does with lumiere.

    The Man in the Iron Mask |Alexandre Dumas, Pere

British Dictionary definitions for lumiere

Lumière
/ (French lymjɛr) /

noun

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (oɡyst mari lwi nikɔlɑ). 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean (lwi ʒɑ̃), 1864–1948, French chemists and cinema pioneers, who invented a cinematograph and a process of colour photography