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- noun The
writing ofbelles-lettres
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Examples
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Preferring formal grammar and clarity over “belletrism”, though not necessarily.
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Though Chambers was a passionate literary man, always the intellectual, insatiably and relentlessly curious, in the last analysis it was action, not belletrism, that moved him most deeply.
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Though Chambers was a passionate literary man, always the intellectual, insatiably and relentlessly curious, in the last analysis it was action, not belletrism, that moved him most deeply.
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