Meursault

[mur-soh, mœr-soh]

noun

1. a dry, white Burgundy wine produced in the district around Meursault in E France.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Meursault¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Louis Latour Meursault Premier Cru "Château de Blagny" 2022 is a nice bottle of white Burgundy that pairs well with seafood.

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He became a newspaper columnist and won international acclaim in 2015 for his first novel The Meursault Investigation, which was a reworking of The Stranger by Albert Camus.

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An earlier work The Meursault Investigation won the best first novel award in 2015.

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Daoud has written two previous novels, one of which - the much-praised Meursault Investigation - was a rewriting of Albert Camus’s The Stranger and was shortlisted for the Goncourt in 2015.

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Mr. Daoud wrote a novel, “The Meursault Investigation,” that takes Camus’s “The Stranger” — or more precisely, the “majestically nonchalant” murder of an Arab at the heart of it — and turns that Arab into a human being rather than the voiceless, nameless object of a “philosophical crime” by a Frenchman called Meursault.

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