Meanings
plural feuilletonists
- A writer of feuilletons.
But for all this, Grassou gave excellent counsel, like those feuilletonists incapable of writing a book who know very well where a book is wanting.
1840, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Pierre Grassou1 more example
In 1895, while Japan was busy beating China, and had convinced herself that she could beat the world, one of the Tōkyō papers achieved a success by the publication of a serial noved entitled Asahi-Zakura, by a feuilletonist called Murai Gensai.
1905, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese
Origin
- Frenchfeuilletoniste
- Englishfeuilletonist
From French feuilletoniste. By surface analysis, feuilleton + -ist.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech fejetonista
- fejetonistaa writer of feuilletons
Finnish följetongisti
- följetongistia writer of feuilletons
French feuilletoniste
- feuilletonistea writer of feuilletons
German Feuilletonist, Feuilletonistin
- Feuilletonista writer of feuilletons
- Feuilletonistina writer of feuilletons
Polish felietonista
- felietonistaa writer of feuilletons
Romanian foiletonist, foiletonistă
- foiletonista writer of feuilletons
- foiletonistăa writer of feuilletons
Russian фельетонист
- фельетонист (felʹjetonist)a writer of feuilletons
Spanish folletinista
- folletinistaa writer of feuilletons
Yiddish פֿעליעטאָניסט
- פֿעליעטאָניסט (felyetonist)a writer of feuilletons
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