Apollinaire

[ uh-pol-uh-nair; French a-paw-lee-ner ]

noun
  1. Guil·laume [gee-yohm], /giˈyoʊm/, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, 1880–1918, French poet and art critic, born in Italy.

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Apollinaire

/ (French apɔlinɛr) /


noun
  1. Guillaume (ɡijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880–1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and Calligrammes (1918)

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