belles-lettres
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- : literature regarded as a fine art, especially as having a purely aesthetic function.
- : light and elegant literature, especially that which is excessively refined, characterized by aestheticism, and minor in subject, substance, or scope.
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He is a professor of creative writing at Princeton and, among his many awards, is an Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
The cast makes it fun to watch but there were no surprises.Verdict: These belles need some fine-tuning.
Four- and 5-year-old girls become queens of the rodeo, while 8- and 9-year olds are transformed into Southern belles.
Car les Angloys s'en veulent dire maistres, et sur ce ils produysoyent des lettres de leur Roy, mais ce que nous croyons fausses.
"Lettres et journal pour monsieur," interrupted a waiter, entering with two letters and the Times.
The ball which followed exhibited a crowd of the belles of Longwy, all as happy as dress and dancing could make them.
Charles de la Rue, a French Jesuit, died; distinguished as an orator and poet and a professor of belles-lettres.
But I never deluded myself for a moment that I was anything approaching those old-time belles.