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belles-lettres
[ French bel-le-truh ]
plural noun
- literature regarded as a fine art, especially as having a purely aesthetic function.
- light and elegant literature, especially that which is excessively refined, characterized by aestheticism, and minor in subject, substance, or scope.
belles-lettres
/ ²úÉ›±ô±ôÉ›³Ù°ùÉ™ /
noun
- functioning as singular literary works, esp essays and poetry, valued for their aesthetic rather than their informative or moral content
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú±ð±ô·±ô±ð³Ù·°ù¾±²õ³Ù [bel-, le, -trist], noun
- ²ú±ð±ô·±ô±ð³Ù·°ù¾±²õ·³Ù¾±³¦ [bel-li-, tris, -tik], adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of belles-lettres1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of belles-lettres1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“Both anatomy and belles-lettres are of equally noble descent,†Chekhov once wrote to his publisher, adding that they share “identical goals and an identical enemy—the Devil.â€
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what separates a mere commentator from a producer of belles-lettres, but you know it when you read it.
More recently in Carmel there have been a great number of literary men about, but there is not the old flavor, the old dignity of the true belles-lettres.
“It gives voice to every possible articulation of crime and mystery in belles-lettres,†she said.
Dandies, it seems, are dandy; but belles-lettres is better.
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