‖ symboliste
(sɛ̃bɔlist)
Also with capital initial.
[Fr.: cf. symbolist.]
= symbolist 2 c (b). Chiefly attrib.
| 1925 [see Crocean a.2]. 1957 J. Hollander in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 67 Professor Knight has elevated his rather symboliste construction of the word ‘music’ to the heights proclaimed in Verlaine's manifesto. 1966 Listener 17 Mar. 378/1 T. S. Eliot..found the clues he needed..in the French Symbolistes like Laforgue. 1980 A. Alpers Life K. Mansfield vii. 135 A little symboliste prose-poem. |