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belles lettres

NOUN
  1. creative writing valued for esthetic content

How To Use belles lettres In A Sentence

  • The novel, The Shakespeare Chronicles, was begun almost immediately but, like many avocational belles lettres, took a long time to finish. Stromata Blog:
  • Some, indeed, of belles lettres, poems, plays, or memoirs, he tossed indignantly aside, with the implied censure of ‘psha, ’ or ‘frivolous; ’ but the greater and bulkier part of the collection bore a very different character. Chapter XX
  • The term belles lettres emerges only in the seven - teenth century. LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
  • James, the more disposed of the two to the study of Belles Lettres, excelled in Literature; was eminent as a favourer of the Fine and Liberal arts. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
  • Today belles lettres both in French and English, is used rather rarely and the noun “belletrist” and the adjective “belletristic” have assumed a faintly derisive shade of frivolity and incon - sequence. LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
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