belle-lettrist

English

Etymology

From belles-lettres +‎ -ist.

Noun

belle-lettrist (plural belle-lettrists)

1. (archaic) One versed in belles-lettres (humanities).
   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:

     Usamah was a master adib – the refined Arab belle-lettrist par excellence – writing books and poems on the delights of women, male manners (The Kernels of Refinement), eroticism and warfare.

References

• “belle-lettrist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.