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Boileau-Despréaux

[ bwa-loh-de-prey-oh ]

/ bwaˈloʊ dɛ preɪˈoʊ /

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Ni·co·las

[nee-kaw-lah], /ni kɔˈlɑ/, 1636–1711, French critic and poet.

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boil, boilable, boil away, boil down, Boileau, Boileau-Despréaux, boiled, boiled dinner, boiled dressing, boiled oil, boiled shirt

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How to use Boileau-Despréaux in a sentence

This assembly, to which Boileau and Racine afterwards belonged, soon became an academy of itself.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
This canto never would have converted Boileau from his disapproval of the "merveilleux chrétien."
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
In a word, Boileau ridicules Perrault much more than he justifies Homer.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Molire was naturally of a reserved and taciturn temper; insomuch that his friend Boileau used to call him the Contemplateur.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 358|Various

His lines "baisent la terre" in a way that would have inexpressibly shocked Boileau and the Parisian salons.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems|F.W. Moorman