Gautier

[ goh-tyey ]

noun
  1. Thé·o·phile [tey-aw-feel], /teɪ ɔˈfil/, 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic.

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How to use Gautier in a sentence

  • And in spite of myself I began to feel melancholy over the fate of Marguerite Gautier.

    Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) | Alexandre Dumas, fils
  • Now, this Demoiselle Gautier, it appears she lived a bit free, if you'll excuse my saying so.

    Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) | Alexandre Dumas, fils
  • Gautier, above all his contemporaries, was of precisely the temper of mind to appreciate Charles Baudelaire.

    Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
  • The attempt to say it may seem presumptuous, and I am certain that no single word of Gautier could be altered or improved upon.

    Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
  • Writers and readers of to-day must necessarily look at Baudelaire with very different eyes from those of Gautier.

    Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier

British Dictionary definitions for Gautier

Gautier

/ (French ɡotje) /


noun
  1. Théophile (teɔfil). 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic. His early extravagant romanticism gave way to a preoccupation with poetic form and expression that anticipated the Parnassians

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