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Date: 1800-1900
Language: French
Origin: Old French gendre; GENDER

genre

 noun
     
gen‧re [countable]
formal a particular type of art, writing, music etc, which has certain features that all examples of this type share
genre of
a new genre of filmmaking
a literary genre
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