Mallarmé

American  

[ma-lar-mey] / ma larˈmeɪ /

noun

1. Stéphane 1842–98, French poet.

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Mallarmé British  

/ malarme /

noun

1. Stéphane (stefan). 1842–98, French symbolist poet, noted for his free verse, in which he chooses words for their evocative qualities; his works include L'Après-midi d'un Faune (1876), Vers et Prose (1893), and Divagations (1897)

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Example Sentences

Mr. Tesson is fond of quotation: Verbal gems from Arthur Rimbaud, Mr. Tesson’s literary hero, pop up with some frequency, and before readers arrive at the lovely blue waters of the Adriatic, they have also read about or heard from Flaubert, Pascal, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, St. Augustine, Turgenev, Mallarmé, Hugo, Baudelaire and the Gospel of Matthew.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Gluck performed and directed at Batsheva for 16 years, taking leading roles in reinterpreting pieces that Graham had debuted in the 1940s including “Herodiade,” based on a work by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé; “Cave of the Heart,” inspired by the Euripides drama “Medea”; and the ballet “Diversion of Angels.”

From Washington Post

The next section examines the Barnes mural and a commission to illustrate a book of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poems.

From Washington Post

Williams’s version takes a more sinister tone than Nijinsky’s erotic one, sparked by a line in the Mallarmé poem for which the dance is named: the Faun refers to — as Williams writes — a “kiss that quietly gives assurance of treachery.”

From New York Times

Among the show’s most captivating works are a 1929-31 painting, “The Yellow Dress,” which eludes my ability to find apt words but absolutely epitomizes Matisse’s genius as a colorist; “Purple Robe and Anemones,” a 1937 painting of almost impossible suaveness; and the illustrations he made for a 1932 edition of Stephane Mallarmé’s poems — the first of many books he would illustrate.

From Washington Post