feuilletonist

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English

Etymology

From French feuilletoniste. By surface analysis, feuilleton +‎ -ist.

Noun

feuilletonist (plural feuilletonists)

  1. A writer of feuilletons.
    • 1905, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese:
      In 1895, while Japan was busy beating China, and had convinced herself that she could beat the world, one of the Tōkyō papers achieved a success by the publication of a serial noved entitled Asahi-Zakura, by a feuilletonist called Murai Gensai.
    • 1840, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Pierre Grassou:
      But for all this, Grassou gave excellent counsel, like those feuilletonists incapable of writing a book who know very well where a book is wanting.

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