Beerbohm

[beer-bohm]

noun

1. Sir Max, 1872–1956, English essayist, critic, and caricaturist.

Beerbohm

/ ˈbɪəbəʊm /

noun

1. Sir ( Henry ) Max ( imilian ). 1872–1956, English critic, wit, and caricaturist, whose works include Zuleika Dobson (1911), a satire on Oxford undergraduates

Example Sentences

A pugnacious character on the comic book scene for nearly 30 years, Mr. Beerbohm once summed up his career as “a hobby that got way out of hand.”

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Admittedly, the “Macbeth” prohibition has its origins in nonsense, as an invention of the 19th-century critic and essayist Max Beerbohm.

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Max Beerbohm composed a cheeky poem about court life: “The King is duller than the Queen … the Queen is duller than the King.”

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Like his English contemporary Max Beerbohm, the French Max was also a dandy, one who sported a monocle, favored pink shirts and carried a walking stick.

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Is it happenstance that this decadent aesthete — best known from Max Beerbohm’s sketch of his career — disappeared in the very year that “Irene Iddesleigh” was published?

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