Villon

[vee-yawn]

noun

1. François 1431–63?, French poet.

2. Jacques Gaston Duchamp, 1875–1963, French painter.

Villon

/ vijɔ̃ /

noun

1. François (frɑ̃swa). born 1431, French poet. His poems, such as those in Le Petit testament (?1456) and Le Grand testament (1461), are mostly ballades and rondeaux, verse forms that he revitalized. He was banished in 1463, after which nothing more was heard of him

2. Jacques (ʒak), real name Gaston Duchamp. 1875–1963, French cubist painter and engraver

Example Sentences

“He’s breaking up the space very heavily,” Ms. Rosenberg said of Villon’s pictorial approach.

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Perhaps amid the benevolence of the day, some of us also felt what Villon and the French might have called a frisson, as we recalled the snows of 40 years ago.

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Forbidden to attend high school because he was Jewish, Dr. Braham studied by candlelight, reading Hungarian translations of French writers François Villon and Michel de Montaigne.

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There was a week of reading Francois Villon and not liking him at all.

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"There are other areas we need to just start looking at as far as why that happened, why it was not reported," Villon said.

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