Noun: clou
Sample Sentences
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But had he not refused her the wherewithal to remember him—the pearls she needed as the clou of her dear collection, the great relic among relics? [1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:]
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Partly because they were constructed of multiple shot-scenes and recorded exclusively in LS, their elaborate decors acquired an even more privileged role — as tableaux and clous of spectacle — much in the manner of late nineteenth-century French stage productions […] [1994, Richard Abel, The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914, page 70:]
Nouns inflected like clou
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French clou. Doublet of clove. See: French Nouns '
clou'.