belle-lettrist en · NOUN
Etymology
From belles-lettres + -ist.
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| belle-lettrists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |