nocturne
- n a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
- Linda composed a nocturne which she used to play almost every day on her piano.
- Her father was an amateur pianist with an outlook on life as romantic and melancholy as a Chopin nocturne.
- Today the woodnotes wild of Benny Goodman's clarinet can be made as durable as a Chopin nocturne, and copies can be distributed by the thousands.