VERLAINE

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• VERLAINE (noun)
  The noun VERLAINE has 1 sense:

1. French symbolist poet (1844-1896)

  Familiarity information: VERLAINE used as a noun is very rare.

• VERLAINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French symbolist poet (1844-1896)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Paul Verlaine; Verlaine

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

Imagine Mr. Butler living up to social etiquette and enunciating his views on Paul Verlaine or the German drama or the novels of D'Annunzio.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)