feuilleton
noun
a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
feuilletonist
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a word derived from
feuilleton.
Example Sentences
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The consequent adventures among the people are very numerous, and not, oftentimes, without startling interest, affording such themes and plots as a French feuilletonist might revel in.
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou
The consequent adventures constantly occurring among them often culminate in startling tragedies, and afford plots in which a French feuilletonist would revel.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
Of course the feuilletonist proper is to be distinguished from the author or novelist who publishes a work in the Feuilleton, as Lamartine his Confidences, and Sue and Dumas and George Sand, their romances.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
Their prose was an artificial language, the language of a polite chronicle with the best, that of a vulgar feuilletonist with the worst.
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Gilbert Cannan
Himself a clever critic, Mr Gutzkow was anxious to make the acquaintance of a king of the craft, the well-known Jules Janin, the feuilletonist of the Debats.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
