belle-lettrist

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English

Etymology

belles-lettres +‎ -ist

Noun

belle-lettrist (plural belle-lettrists)

  1. (archaic) One versed in belles-lettres (humanities).
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:
      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.

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