What is "litterateur"

Usage examples of "litterateur".

Let them not think him a dreamy litterateur, nor, worse, a flat precisionist, but let them be always a little off-balance before him, never knowing what came next, and often wondering, in class and out.

The decayed professors, virtuosi, litterateurs, and artists thronged to the place en masse.

Fields, a litterateur, and so hesitated to compare ideas of True Literature.

The publisher made it his business to know the reading habits of every litterateur and scholar in New England and everyone who counted outside it.

Healey had never claimed himself a litterateur and so could evaluate the matter dispassionately.

I was now merely a spectator, and from my couch in the big room I could lie and watch the human interplay with that detached, impassive, impersonal feeling which French writers tell us is so valuable to the litterateur, and American writers to the faro-dealer.

Lastly, you will know with what admiration and regard I place your name on the fore page of my book, and greet in you the statesman, the litterateur, and the personal friend.

As a distinguished landowner of the Auvergne, litterateur of some note, city prefect of Rome until recently, and the likely Bishop of Clermont, he carried too much weight for anyone to openly object to his presence.

Mme Lakshin on March 8 with Aykhenvald, Aldanov, and other litterateurs present.

The small columns of the porch gave it the name of the tempietto, or little temple, while several personages dear to litterateurs had lived there, from the landscape painter Claude Lorrain to the poet Francois Coppee.

Violent, abusive as he was, unjust to any against whom he happened to have a prejudice, his castigation of the small litterateurs of that day was not harmful, but rather of use.

The autographed photographs of Paderewski, John Drew, and distinguished litterateurs, however, used to lose nothing from the proximity of Mrs.

The saloon of Justus Schwab, at Number Fifty, First Street, was the center where gathered Anarchists, litterateurs, and bohemians.

Yellow journalists and milk-and-water litterateurs have painted pictures of the emancipated woman that make the hair of the good citizen and his dull companion stand up on end.

The more refined the critic is, the more likely it is that he lives in a very small circle of litterateurs who constantly meet and read one another and who have developed what is almost a private language.