belles-lettres

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The humanities. obsolete,uncountable
  2. Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties. archaic,uncountable
    — That vapid, half naturalized term ‘belles-lettres,’ which has had some currency as a substitute for the term ‘literature.’
  3. Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics. archaic,uncountable

词形变化

belles lettres alternative belles-letters alternative belle-lettre alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
belle-lettrist
相关词
belletrist belletristic

词源

Borrowed from French belles-lettres (“fine writings”), a parallel construction with the beaux arts (“fine arts”). Littré considered the belles-lettres to embrace grammar, rhetoric, and poetry. Sense embracing all of the humanities under the influence of Latin literae humaniores.
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