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• nerval
  nerval

  adjective

  neural.
• Nerval
  Nerval

  noun

  Gérard de Gérard Labrunie, 1808–55, French writer.

nerval

¹ American  

[nur-vuhl] / ˈnɜr vəl /

adjective

1. neural.

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Nerval ² American  

[ner-val] / nɛrˈval /

noun

1. Gérard de Gérard Labrunie, 1808–55, French writer.

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Nerval British  

/ nɛrval /

noun

1. Gérard de (ʒerar də), real name Gérard Labrunie. 1808–55, French poet, noted esp for the sonnets of mysticism, myth, and private passion in Les Chimères (1854)

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Etymology

Origin of nerval

1630–40; < Late Latin nervālis of, belonging to nerves, equivalent to Latin nerv ( us ) nerve + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

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Nerval

“Our dreams are a second life,” she writes, quoting the French romantic Gérard de Nerval.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2019

“Notre Dame is good and old: Perhaps we’ll even see her bury Paris, whose birth she witnessed,” the poet Gérard de Nerval once said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2019

Another of Nadar’s close friends, the poet Nerval, would walk his pet lobster in the gardens of the Palais-Royal, using a length of blue-silk ribbon as a leash.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2017

One of the boys is reading Gérard De Nerval, another has a picture of Rimbaud on the wall.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014

She prepared dinner for them, and sent De Nerval for the girl, who had gone to ransack the peasant treasures in the garret.

From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang