Huysmans

[ wees-mahns ]

noun

1. Jo·ris Karl [zhoh-, rees, kah, r, l], Charles Marie Georges Huysmans, 1848–1907, French novelist.

Huysmans

/ ʎismɑ̃s /

noun

1. HuysmansJoris Karl18481907MFrenchWRITING: novelist Joris Karl (ʒɔris karl). 1848–1907, French novelist of the Decadent school, whose works include À rebours (1884)

Example Sentences

Huysmans, however, scoffs at this distinction and says the use of the term "white magic" was a ruse of the Rose-Croix.

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Cornelis the second is the only master of the name of Huysmans whose talent was largely acknowledged.

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Critics like Huysmans have exaggerated its present iciness: no one can pray in Laon, he exclaimed; its soul is fled forever.

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What Huysmans called the maigreur distingue of youth is a characteristic of this church.

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And if they are to be thus collected may we not hope for one or two new essays with, say, for subjects, Flaubert and Huysmans?

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