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Baudelaire

[ bohd-l-air; French bohduh-ler ]

noun

  1. Charles Pierre [sh, a, r, l pye, r], 1821–67, French poet and critic.


Baudelaire

/ bodlɛr /

noun

  1. BaudelaireCharles Pierre18211867MFrenchWRITING: poet Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Whitman is made to share a chapter, lumped in with Proust, Wilde, and Baudelaire, in which he is allotted a mere paragraph.

It was in one such club at the bottom end of the Champs Élysées, which was then under construction, that Baudelaire first saw her.

Baudelaire suspected that sometimes she sold herself on the streets to raise money.

Caroline Baudelaire was a good-looking woman who delighted in dressing in her finery when going out at night.

The pair began spending money prodigiously—Baudelaire on paintings of dubious value and she on clothes and jewelry.

It portrays Baudelaire as he is very little known, and as he was only at that particular time.

Charles Baudelaire had his hour of supreme beauty and perfect expansion, and we relate it after this faithful witness.

Such was our impression of Baudelaire at our first meeting, the memory of which is as vivid as though it had occurred yesterday.

Shortly after this first meeting Baudelaire came to see us and brought a volume of his verses.

No one, even at the time of fervour for romanticism, had more respect and adoration for the great masters than Baudelaire.

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