belles-lettres
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌbɛlˈlɛtɹ/
belles-lettres
- (obsolete) The humanities.
- (archaic) Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties.
- a. 1854, Henry Reed in the 1878 ed. of Lectures on English Literature, p. 34:
- That vapid, half naturalized term ‘belles-lettres,’ which has had some currency as a substitute for the term ‘literature.’
- a. 1854, Henry Reed in the 1878 ed. of Lectures on English Literature, p. 34:
- (archaic) Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics.
- French: belles-lettres
- German: Belles Lettres, schöne Literatur, Belletristik
- Portuguese: belas-letras
- Russian: худо́жественная литерату́ра
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