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torchon
(redirected from Coup de Torchon)

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torchon [′tȯr‚shän]
(textiles)
Bobbin lace made of coarse thread in simple fanlike or diamond-shaped design, with little background.


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Released along with two other Tavernier-Noiret films, The Judge and the Assassin (1976) and Coup de Torchon (1981), a brilliant transposition of a Jim Thompson novel to 1930s colonial Africa that Jean Genet greatly admired.
One of his best, Coup de Torchon (1981), was based on Jim Thompson's pulp novel Pop.
 
 
 
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