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)

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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