Etymology

symbolist

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature Full definition →

French symboliste
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  1. French · borrowed fromsymboliste
  2. English todaysymbolist

From French symboliste, coined by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1885.

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