littérateur
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of littérateur
From French, dating back to 1800–10; see origin at literator
Example Sentences
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Among the least camera-shy in the chalet colony was Old Litterateur Noel Coward, 62, who obligingly posed for a seraphic portrait before a pair of huge gilt wings that perch above his fireplace.
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And people who liked the Follies of 1922 may think it odd that Shimmy-Dancer Gray would appear in a story by Litterateur Bennett.
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"The world has been through a period of hysterical excitements and stark realism," announced Musicomedy Dancer Ray Bolger, as quoted by rococo Litterateur Lucius Beebe.
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Dr. Edvard Brandes, 84, one-time Finance Minister of Denmark, founder of the radical paper Politiken, younger brother of the late Litterateur Georg Morris Cohen Brandes; in Copenhagen.
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Sometimes it is as intricate as the aesthetic theory that Litterateur D.B.
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