Definition of Goncourt

1. Noun. French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870).


2. Noun. French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goncourt

Gomorrha
Gompers
Gompertz
Gompertz' hypothesis
Gompertz' law
Gompertz curve
Gompertz curves
Gompertzian
Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium
Gomphrena
Gomphrena globosa
Goncharovian
Goncourt (current term)
Gond
Gondi
Gondwana
Gondwanaland
Gondwanalandic
Gongora
Gongorism
Gongorist
Gongylonema
Gongylonema ingluvicola
Gongylonema neoplasticum
Gongylonema pulchrum
Goniopteris
Gonne

Literary usage of Goncourt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1899)
"After the death of his brother, Edmond Goncourt published ... an account by the brothers Goncourt of the adventures of the beautiful actress, was published ..."

2. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"Goncourt (E. and J. de). —Continued. '19. (389) $100.00. Lev. mor., ge on the rough ... Goncourt (E. de, and others). Les Types de Paris. Paris [1890]. 4to. ..."

3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"The state of his friends, the MM. de Goncourt, was not " Let Deux much more gracious; but though they were even Goncourt." more influential, as holding up ..."

4. Books in General: By Solomon Eagle [pseud.] by John Collings Squire (1920)
"The Goncourt Journal in English POLITICAL events affect the manner in which one reads books. I have been reading the late Julius West's English courageous ..."

5. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"After the death of his brother, Edmond Goncourt published L'(Euvre de ... an account by the brothers Goncourt of the adventures of the beautiful actress, ..."

6. Essays in London and Elsewhere by Henry James (1893)
"THE JOURNAL OF THE BROTHERS DE Goncourt I CAN scarcely forbear beginning these limited remarks on an interesting subject with a regret—the regret that I had ..."

7. Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Joseph Cyrille Proal (1901)
"It is well known how excessively nervous the brothers de Goncourt and Alphonse ... Our work," wrote one of the de Goncourt brothers, " and this I suppose is ..."

8. Leaves of a Life: Being the Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams (1890)
"... large winnings—Madame de Goncourt swallows the bait—The subsequent ... Charing Cross "•—Madame de Goncourt invests £10000—She consults her bankers, ..."

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