prosateur
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As a prosateur he wrote several novels such as Madame André, Sophie, Les Braves Gens, Césarine, Les Morts Bizarres, a series of short stories."
- "He rated writers like Machiavelli higher than the prosateurs of his own time."
- "For two years, the Parisian press has been much occupied by a school of poets and prosateurs known as the "Decadents"."
- "Szkilnik also shows how the prosateur's emphasis on treachery and the cruel punishment of the rebels reflect practices in which Philip of Burgundy engaged in order to put down rebellions of his own, particularly in Flanders."
Etymology
Borrowed from French prosateur.