Belle-lettrist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One versed in belles-lettres (humanities). archaic
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From belles-lettres + -ist.
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