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Beauvoir

British  
/ bovwar /

noun

  1. See de Beauvoir

"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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Geneva Faye appreciates the literary curation and is delighted by today’s choice of Simone de Beauvoir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

Ms. Winter cited Simone de Beauvoir to support her views.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

It inspire Simone de Beauvoir in 1960 to say, "BB now deserves to be considered an export product as important as Renault automobiles."

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

Writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett and singer Serge Gainsbourg were laid to rest at Montparnasse, while actress Jane Birkin's ashes were interned there.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

She insisted on her unequivocal determination for them to remain together only so long as they were friends, without constraints or promises for the future, just like Sartre and Beauvoir.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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