Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bel-esprit

Bel-esprit ({not transcribed}) , noun

[French, fine wit.]

A fine genius, or man of wit.

A man of letters and a bel esprit. — W. Irving

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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