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‖ Félibre|felibr|
[F. félibre, a. Prov. felibre any one of the teachers in the temple to whom Jesus put questions as a child (Luke 2: 46), prob. (Bloch & von Wartburg) f. Low Latin fellibris, var. of fellebris nursling (of the Muses), f. L. fellāre to suck.]
A word used by F. Mistral (1830–1914) to designate a member of the brotherhood which was founded in 1854 by seven Provençal writers for the maintenance and purification of Provençal as a literary language, and also for the promotion of the artistic interests of the South of France. Also as adj.
1876G. Meredith Let. 6 Oct. (1970) I. 527 As to the song, my wife worked at it Trojanly and I, as it were a drum accompaniment, thumped out the Félibre lingo. 1892Ibid. 13 Dec. II. 1112 Wyse was an enthusiastic félibre, and published Provençal verses. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 44/1 Greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the félibres, Jacques Jasmin (1798–1864), the hairdresser of Agen. Ibid. 45/1 The félibres are in no sense of the word the direct successors of the troubadours. 1904Westm. Gaz. 27 May 12/2 The Félibres, who have just been celebrating their jubilee. 1964Archivum Linguisticum 38 Roumanille, however, finally succeeded in persuading his fellow félibres to adopt the phonetic system.
Hence Féˈlibrian a., relating to the Félibres, or to the Provençal literature produced by them; Félibrism |ˈfeɪlɪbrɪz(ə)m|, the movement instituted by the Félibres; the principles underlying that movement.
1908Daily Chron. 16 Jan. 4/4 He plunged into the centre of things Félibrian. 1911Daily News 11 Mar. 6/4 The literary output of Félibrism has been mainly poetic. |