Meaning of belles-lettristic | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to belles-lettres; having, or describing, a primarily aesthetic literary bent.

Examples

“Reggio's works will always command respect on account of their belles-lettristic value.”

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

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

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

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