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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats