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reportage (rɪˈpɔətɪdʒ, ‖ rəpɔrtaʒ) [f. as prec. + -age; in sense 2, a. F. reportage (Littré Suppl.).] †1. Report, repute. Obs. rare—1.
1612Webster White Devil iii. iii, For usurers, That share with scriveners for their good reportage. 2. Reported matter; gossip.
1881Academy 5 Nov. 347/2 He will interest the lovers of personal detail by certain reportage. 1892Sat. Rev. 25 June 738/2 Modern reportage-colporting gossips on the stage. 3. The describing of events (usu. by an observer); spec. the reporting of events for the press or for broadcasting, esp. with reference to its style; an instance of this, a piece of journalistic or factual writing. Also transf. and attrib.
1891E. Dowson Let. 7 Feb. (1967) 184 Howells..writes in dialect, in Yankee and that's not realism (even Zola doesn't go so far) it's reportage. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Feb. 129/2 Ludwig's works written before the war, plays, novels, reportage. 1938C. Connolly Enemies of Promise xvi. 173 The article has a future, especially in the form of the critical essay..and the skilled ‘reportage’. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. xix. 155 What L'Hibou suggested..that Madame Absalom should do with her ears, had best be omitted from this reportage. 1954Koestler Invisible Writing xv. 169 Németh's book was planned as a long psychological novel, Kuncz's book as a straightforward reportage. 1959L.-H. Liang tr. Ting Yi's Short Hist. Mod. Chin. Lit. x. 217 During the early period of the war of Resistance, reportage..became the most popular of all literary forms among both the writers and the broad reading public. 1961Listener 28 Dec. 1125/3 Where is your black-and-white photograph without sun and sparkle?.. A big enough limitation, one would think, to render suspect almost any black and white reportage. 1963Movie Apr. 12/1 The makers of documentary and reportage films. 1965Listener 8 Apr. 535/1 In his fourth sonata..there was too little art (and craft) and too much reportage. 1969N.Y. Rev. Books 2 Jan. 28/3 Reportages like his account of a journey through the Sudetenland as the Germans entered. 1978Poland May 52/2 Young people need a confirmation of their knowledge about their own country.., and that..is precisely what they find in a realistic reportage. 1979London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 8/4 His study of the Hyde Park orators might have been taken as a masterly piece of reportage. |