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Litterateur   Listen
noun
Litterateur  n.  One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Litterateur" Quotes from Famous Books



... of his treble position as banker, economic writer, and general litterateur, was his charming book 'Lombard Street.' Most writers know nothing about business, he sets forth, most business men cannot write, therefore most writing about business is either unreadable or untrue: he put all his literary gifts at its service, and produced a ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... duc Philippe qu'on surnomma le Bon, ce n'est point ici le lieu d'examiner s'il merita bien veritablement ce titre glorieux, et si l'histoire n'auroit pas a lui faire des reproches de plus d'un genre. Mais, comme litterateur, je ne puis m'empecher de remarquer ici, a l'honneur de sa memoire, que les lettres au moins lui doivent de la reconnoissance; que c'est un des princes qui, depuis Charlemagne jusqu'a Francois I'er, ait le plus fait pour elles; qu'au ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt



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