Usually means: Musical compositions inspired by night.
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  1. nocturnes: Merriam-Webster
  2. nocturnes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nocturnes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nocturnes, nocturnes: Wordnik
  5. nocturnes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nocturnes: Wiktionary
  7. nocturnes: Dictionary.com
  8. Nocturnes (Chopin), Nocturnes (Debussy), Nocturnes (Field), Nocturnes (Ishiguro book), Nocturnes (Little Boots album), Nocturnes (Satie), Nocturnes (Uh Huh Her album), Nocturnes (book), Nocturnes (disambiguation), Nocturnes (short story collection), Nocturnes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Nocturnes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Nocturnes)

noun:  Nocturnes, L 98 (also known as Trois Nocturnes or Three Nocturnes) is an Impressionist orchestral composition in three movements by the French composer Claude Debussy, who wrote it between 1892 and 1899.
noun:  Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro.
noun:  Irish composer John Field was the first composer to use the term 'Nocturne' in the Romantic sense, to apply to a character piece featuring a cantabile melody over an arpeggiated accompaniment.
noun:  Frédéric Chopin wrote 21 nocturnes for solo piano between 1827 and 1846.
noun:  musical compositions inspired by, or evocative of, night.
noun:  the second studio album from Uh Huh Her, which was released on October 11, 2011 worldwide.
noun:  the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Little Boots.
noun:  a set of five piano pieces (initially planned as a set of seven, but left unfinished) by Erik Satie.
noun:  (sometimes styled as NOCTURNES) the sophomore concept album by British composer Daniel Liam Glyn, released on 18 September 2020 via Caravan Boy Records.
noun:  a Canadian animated short film, directed by François Aubry and released in 1988.Ingrid Abramovitch, "National Film Board is out in force with 10 festival premieres".


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