Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A writer of belles-lettres.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One devoted to belles-lettres.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who writes or is concerned with
belles-lettres
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Examples
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David Duchovny reprises the role of Moody, the bawdy, cocksure and terminally lovesick belletrist transplanted from his native New York to Venice Beach.
Rob Fishman: Californication Season 3: Sneak Peek And Review 2009
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Soft Skull publisher and all-around NYC belletrist Richard Nash recently posted a scathing opinion piece on this site about Book Expo America's decision to limit floor hours (and effectively cancel an opening night party) at BEA 2010.
Nick Antosca: How to Throw a Party for Books: the NBA's 5 Under 35 Event 2009
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A PERI-palooza of other groups with a leg up on stardom: Rock Bottom Remainders: Dave Barry, Stephen King and Amy Tan lead belletrist bar band.
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One of the five he named is philosopher and belletrist Brandon Watson of Siris who, declining to use the delightfully ego-stroking graphic offered to us, has in turned memed me.
Archive 2007-04-01 Mike L 2007
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One of the five he named is philosopher and belletrist Brandon Watson of Siris who, declining to use the delightfully ego-stroking graphic offered to us, has in turned memed me.
Hurrah! I'm a "Thinking Blogger" Mike L 2007
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Peter Riis, proprietor of The New Companion and a "shameless and hardened belletrist," noticed the recent renaissance of hat-related posts here and sent me a link to a glorious advertisement he had posted a couple of years ago:THE PRICE OF FRIENDSHIP.
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Today belles lettres both in French and English, is used rather rarely and the noun “belletrist” and the adjective “belletristic” have assumed a faintly derisive shade of frivolity and incon - sequence.
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968
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Bond-like hero than erudite belletrist, alluding as nonchalantly to Rage Against the Machine and Bart Simpson as he does 19th century radical French mathematician évariste Galois and René
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But writers who overtly seek political change through fiction rarely succeed, according to British belletrist Ferdinand Mount, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Barber 2011
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Bond-like hero than erudite belletrist, alluding as nonchalantly to Rage Against the Machine and Bart Simpson as he does 19th century radical French mathematician évariste Galois and René
reesetee commented on the word belletrist
A writer of belles-lettres.
November 4, 2007