Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Distinctively literary; exercising or manifesting special care for literary form or style.
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Their physique is feminine; they are fanciful, dainty, reserved; they are literose, sophisticated in craftsmanship, but innocently unaware of the profound agitations of American life, of life everywhere.
American Literature 1921
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Studiedly or affectedly literary.
October 15, 2008