Gourmont

American  

[goor-mawn] / gurˈmɔ̃ /

noun

1. Remy de 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.

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Gourmont British  

/ ɡurmɔ̃ /

noun

1. Remy de (rəmi də). 1858–1915, French symbolist critic and novelist

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Example Sentences

"He became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with a large bronze fig leaf.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the proposition first mooted by a distinguished critic, Remy de Gourmont, that Maeterlinck and Verhaeren be elected to the French Academy, was not a bizarre one.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Years before we heard of a pluralistic universe De Gourmont was a pragmatist, though an idealist in his conception of the world as a personal picture.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Nevertheless, De Gourmont no more than Renan, had the mania of certitude.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James