Firbank

British  

/ ˈfɜːbæŋk /

noun

1. ( Arthur Annesley ) Ronald . 1886–1926, English novelist, whose works include Valmouth (1919), The Flower beneath the Foot (1923), and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926)

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Example Sentences

For former sales executive Neil Firbank, a sense of purpose, hope and acceptance are the underlying principles of recovery.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2022

I currently await delivery of a larky 1930s novel called “Frolic Wind” by one Richard Oke, whom contemporary reviewers likened to Ronald Firbank and Evelyn Waugh.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2019

Connolly’s purpose was to make a lasting and decisive evaluation of his gifted contemporaries, writers such as Auden, Joyce, Proust, Firbank, Woolf, Huxley, Hemingway, Faulkner and Waugh.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2016

The rococo combination gives the ballet a high-camp fascination, resembling the prose of Ronald Firbank.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2012

For had not he himself, though only a youth of twenty-two, been one of the appointed preachers at Firbank Chapel?

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)