Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
belletrist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in belles-lettres.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One versed in
belles-lettres .
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Examples
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Here's hoping the canny belle-lettrist will get through this phase and return to the pitch-perfect work that made her name.
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Derrida's writing is to be viewed, I think, as either post-Heideggerian ontology combined with some semiotic abstractions, or as a belle-lettrist experimentalist- surrealist ala Breton or Bataille.
What is Philosophy? A Few Thoughts from a Non-expert on the Passing of Derrida and Reactions to It Chris 2004
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What an act of belle-lettrist boldness to pay homage to such a diverse range of authors, from the high-brow
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What an act of belle-lettrist boldness to pay homage to such a diverse range of authors, from the high-brow
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What an act of belle-lettrist boldness to pay homage to such a diverse range of authors, from the high-brow
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What an act of belle-lettrist boldness to pay homage to such a diverse range of authors, from the high-brow
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