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English
Etymology
From French mélomane, from mélo- + -mane;[1] equivalent to melo- + -mane.
Noun
melomane (plural melomanes)
- Synonym of melomaniac
1868, [Henrietta Camilla] Jenkin, Two French Marriages, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 12:Monsieur de Rochetaillée was a melomane. He thought of nothing, cared for nothing but music. It was the passion of his life; he could not live without music and musicians.
2000, Kermit Swiler Champa, “Painted Responses to Music: The Landscapes of Corot and Monet”, in Marsha L. Morton, Peter L. Schmunk, editors, The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Garland Publishing, Inc., Taylor & Francis Group, →ISBN, page 114:But what was even more important to Monet’s eventual success in devising landscape images that attracted music-modeled appreciation like Silvestre’s is the fact that the melomanes among the younger painters of the 1860s had not produced anything like a consistent painting practice modeled on music.
2012, Lisa Coulthard, “The Attraction of Repetition: Tarantino’s Sonic Style”, in James Eugene Wierzbicki, editor, Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 166:But music in Tarantino is also part of a larger sonic obsession that stresses the acoustic impact of dialogue, noise, atmosphere, and effects—Tarantino is an audio[-]mane as much as a melomane.
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Italian
Etymology
From melo- + -mane.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meˈlɔ.ma.ne/
- Rhymes: -ɔmane
- Hyphenation: me‧lò‧ma‧ne
Noun
melomane m or f by sense (plural melomani)
- melomaniac
Further reading
- melomane in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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