belles-lettristic

English

Adjective

belles-lettristic (comparative more belles-lettristic, superlative most belles-lettristic)

1. Pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.
   • 1951, Richard Foster Jones, The Seventeenth Century

     We had been only vaguely aware, I think, how much less belles-lettristic than his French contemporary was the seventeenth-century Englishman...

   • 1998, George B Hewitt, The Abkhazians: A Handbook

     Truly Abkhazian belles-lettristic literature began in 1912 when Gulia published his first volume of collected works...

   • 2006, Ellie Chambers, Marshall W Gregory, Teaching and Learning English Literature

     Belles-lettristic writing about literature developed the model of a thoughtful person sitting down with a literary work of life-long acquaintance...