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

And it is the title of French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s self-documentary of transition into madness.

From Los Angeles Times

I think at one point Malcolm’s dæmon refers to her as bearing the mark of “Le soleil noir de la mélancolie,” which is a quotation from a poem by Gérard de Nerval which I like very much.

From The New Yorker

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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

After the fire started, a few verses by the 19th-century French poet Gérard de Nerval began circulating on Twitter: “Notre Dame est bien vieille: on la verra peut-être/Enterrer cependant Paris qu’elle a vu naître.”

From The Guardian