/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Proper Names used as Common Nouns
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Crebillon = terrible.
Dumas = imaginative
Fénelon = fabulous.
Le Sage = humorous.
Molière = comic.
Montaigne = thoughtful.
Rabelais = unclean.
Rousseau = amorous,
Victor Hugo = incendiary.
Zola = licentious; Zolaesque, in the manner or style of Zola, the French novelist.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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