Baudelaire

American  

[bohd-l-air, bohd^uh-ler] / ˌboʊd lˈɛər, boʊdəˈlɛr /

noun

1. Charles Pierre 1821–67, French poet and critic.

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Baudelaire British  

/ bodlɛr /

noun

1. Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)

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Baudelaire

Dandyism, Baudelaire wrote in 1863, was “a setting sun.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Charles Baudelaire, 19th century poet, was journalistic criticism’s first great practitioner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

But I found a different line on a mock street sign on the Rue Charles Baudelaire, in a middle-class neighborhood of the city’s 12th arrondissement: “There, there’s only order, beauty: abundant, calm, voluptuous.”

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

It was Baudelaire, from after he saw Wagner’s “Tannhaüser”: “I’ve witnessed a spectacle of time, space and light that I have never experienced before.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Klaus pictured Mr. Poe arriving in his car and putting the Baudelaire orphans inside, to go somewhere else, and felt a stirring of hope.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

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