Etymology

belletrism

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Today it means: The writing of belles-lettres. Full definition →

French belles-lettres
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  1. French · derived frombelles-lettres
  2. English todaybelletrism

From French belles-lettres + -ism.

Words from the same roots

Frenchbelles-lettres all →

belles-lettres

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.