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Belles-lettres (French pronunciation: [bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing.In the modern narrow sense, it is a label for literary works that do not fall into the major categories such as fiction, poetry, or drama.
"French words within complete sentences, text + audio files". parisbypod.com. Archived from the original on April 14, 2008; Mathematical Words: Origins and Sources (John Aldrich, University of Southampton) See Section on Contribution of French.
Roussel, in writing his novel Locus Solus and elsewhere, used a technique that involved putting together in different contexts words that sound similar. The result produces unexpected and even irrational new meanings, and is a bit similar to van Rooten’s technique when he wrote Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames .
A few adjectives have a fifth form, viz. an additional masculine singular form for use in liaison before a noun beginning with a vowel or a "mute h", e.g. un beau jardin, un bel homme, une belle femme, de beaux enfants, de belles maisons (a beautiful garden, a handsome man, a beautiful woman, beautiful children, beautiful houses).
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It is the first book in her MirrorWorld series. Originally published on 14 September 2010 with the title Reckless, it was rereleased 29 September 2016 as Reckless I: The Petrified Flesh. The novel was inspired by the tales of the Brothers Grimm. A sequel, Reckless II: Living Shadows, originally titled Fearless, was released on September 16, 2012.
The text also contains the French-derived words rest, ordinary and sort. The text gained increased exposure and popularity after being circulated around the Internet, [18] and has served as inspiration for some inventors of Germanic English conlangs. Douglas Hofstadter, in discussing the piece in his book Le Ton beau de Marot, jocularly refers ...
Bella is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, and to the name Belle, meaning beautiful in French. [1] [2] It increased in usage following the publication of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. [3] It is also known for being a nickname to Isabella, Annabella or Arabella.