Malraux

[ mal-roh ]

/ malˈroʊ /

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noun

An·dré

[ahn-drey], /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/, 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.

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Words nearby Malraux

Malpighian tubules, Malpighian tuft, malposition, malpractice, malpresentation, Malraux, malrotation, M.A.L.S., malt, Malta, Malta fever

How to use Malraux in a sentence

"Our brothers in the Order of the Night," Malraux called them—born into a tumultuous century and then destroyed by it.
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A place that, as we have known since Malraux, is not a place of death but of life.
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British Dictionary definitions for Malraux

Malraux

/ (French malro) /

noun

André (ɑ̃dre). 1901–76, French writer and statesman. His novels include La Condition humaine (1933) on the Kuomintang revolution (1927–28) and L'Espoir (1937) on the Spanish Civil War, in both of which events he took part. He also wrote on art, notably in Les Voix du silence (1951)

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