Apollinaire
[ uh-pol-uh-nair; French a-paw-lee-ner ]
/ əˌpɒl əˈnɛər; French a pɔ liˈnɛr /
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noun
Guil·laume [gee-yohm], /giˈyoʊm/, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, 1880–1918, French poet and art critic, born in Italy.
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Apollinaire
/ (French apɔlinɛr) /
noun
Guillaume (ɡijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880–1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and Calligrammes (1918)
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