gay science
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English
Etymology
Calque of Provençal gai saber.
Noun
- (dated) The art of poetry.
- 1720, Pierre Daniel Huet, “Monsieur Huet's Letter upon the Original of Romances”, in A Select Collection of Novels, London: John Watts, page xlii:
- For the Normans, as well as the reſt, were Dabblers in The Gay Science; and we learn from Hiſtory that they ſung the Exploits of Roland juſt before they began that memorable Battle wherein William the Baſtard got the Crown of England.
- 1874, George William Cox, chapter XI, in The Crusades, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., page 192:
- The Norman had here laid aside some of his northern roughness, and become and apt disciple of the gay science in which Frederick had won a foremost place.
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Further reading
Consistori del Gay Saber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - gay science on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
