BaudelaireanBaudelairianadj.
/bəʊdəˈlɛːrɪən/ Of, or pertaining to, or characteristic of Charles Baudelaire or his poetry. Hence as n., an admirer or imitator of Baudelaire's work.
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1899 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ & G. Gamble R. Kipling 181 ‘Love-o'-Woman’, a Baudelairean study of physical passion, disease and Death.
1909 Daily Chron. 30 Aug. 3/3 The little Baudelairiens who have an itch to seem Satanic.
1962 A. Huxley Island iii. 20 In a Baudelairian sort of way it's rather beautiful.
1967 Listener 27 July 109/2 André Gide, who was a great Baudelairean.
Derivatives
Baudeˈlairianism n.
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1921 Glasgow Herald 9 Apr. 6 The moral aspect of Baudelairianism.
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