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Meanings of homme de lettres in English

Spanish
hombre de letras

Profession.

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        Examples for "woman of letters"
        Examples for "woman of letters"
        1
        As the world's premier woman of letters, she is a living legend.
        Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
        2
        If anyone exemplifies the 21st-century woman of letters it's Lydia Davis.
        The Irish Times
        3
        No one was ever less consciously a woman of letters.
        The Women of the French Salons
        4
        Ah, well, you're the woman of letters, Miss Faithfull.
        The sealed letter
        5
        A woman of letters, perhaps?
        Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
        Usage of homme de lettres in English
        1
        Had not Victor Hugo left in the hotel-books on the Rhine his designation " homme de lettres"?
        The Parisians — Complete
        2
        He was an homme de lettres connected with a leading paper, and a deputy in the Corps Legislatif for the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees.
        Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Inte...
        3
        Such examples, no doubt, were familiar to Gustave Rameau, and " homme de lettres" was on the scrap of pasteboard nailed to his door.
        The Parisians — Complete
        4
        "Tant pis pour Sorrente," said the homme de lettres, carelessly.
        The Parisians — Volume 03
        5
        "Monsieur," answered Isaura, rather startled at that question, from a professed homme de lettres, "Eleonora did not live at Sorrento."
        The Parisians — Complete
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