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belle-lettrists

belle-lettrists is the plural of belle-lettrist.

Meaning of belle-lettrist

Noun

belle-lettrist (plural belle-lettrists)

  1. (archaic) One versed in belles-lettres (humanities).
    • Usamah was a master adib – the refined Arab belle-lettrist par excellence – writing books and poems on the delights of women, male manners (The Kernels of Refinement), eroticism and warfare.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268

Questions about belle-lettrists

What is belle-lettrists the plural of?
Belle-lettrists is the plural of belle-lettrist.

Words near belle-lettrists in the dictionary

  1. Belle Vue
  2. belle weather
  3. belle époque
  4. belle-lettre
  5. belle-lettrist
  6. belle-lettrists
  7. Belleau
  8. Belleaus
  9. belled
  10. belled buzzard
  11. belled buzzards

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