litterateur

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From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (critic). Doublet of literator.

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litterateur (plural litterateurs, feminine litterateuse or litteratrice)

  1. A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
    • 1877, William Herman (pseudonym; Ambrose Bierce), The Dance of Death, pages 7–8:
      [] ; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.
    • 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 88, footnote 4:
      Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.

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