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English
Noun
retro-noir (countable and uncountable, plural retro-noirs)
- (film, uncountable) A subgenre that closely imitates or recreates the aesthetics and tropes of the classical noirs.
- Hypernym: neo-noir
- (countable, film) A work that closely imitates the classical noirs.
- Hypernym: neo-noir