settings
In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] vocabulary
20 places mentioned
help & settings
[x]
-
aesthete
-
► definition
Definition:One who makes much or overmuch of æsthetics. [Recent]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
► uses
Uses:
more enthusiasm than does the aesthete who ransacks the extant documents of fifteenth-century Florence,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
---
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.
J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.59 (1955)
---
Those literary etherial people they are all. Dreamy, cloudy, symbolistic. Esthetes they are.
James Joyce. Ulysses
help with search