"Belles-lettres" refers to literary works valued for their aesthetic qualities rather than for information or instruction. It comes from the French "belles lettres."
"Belles-lettres" se refiere a obras literarias valoradas por su cualidad estética en lugar de por su información o instrucción. Proviene del francés "belles lettres" (bellas letras).
| Front | belles-lettres \bel-LET-ruh\ |
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| Back | noun Literary works valued for their aesthetic qualities rather than information or instruction. [From French belles (fine) + lettres (letters, literature).] "Unlike official or traditional poetry, the poetry of survival is not made up of consolations but of solutions. Unlike our belles-lettres, this book is fact-dependent, not word-dependent." |
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