Associations to the word «Divertissement»

Wiktionary

DIVERTISSEMENT, noun. An entertaining diversion.
DIVERTISSEMENT, noun. (ballet) A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky