Definition of Giraudoux

1. Noun. French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Giraudoux

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Giovanni da Verrazano
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni de Medici
Giovanni di Bernardone
Gipsy
Giraffa
Giraffa camelopardalis
Giraffidae
Girard
Girard's reagent
Giraudoux
Girawa
Girdlestone
Girdlestone procedure
Gire
Girgenti
Giriama
Girl Guide
Girl Guides
Girl Scout
Girl Scouts
Giro
Girolamo Savonarola
Girona
Gironde

Literary usage of Giraudoux

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

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"By Jean giraudoux. Paris: Gallimard. (JP Mayer in the New Statesman and Nation, ... Almost at the same time that M. giraudoux became the colleague of Lord ..."

2. French Literature of the Great War by Albert Schinz (1920)
"Since and throughout the war, giraudoux maintained that same attitude of ... giraudoux tells us himself that he took down in telegraphic style the report ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations by New York Public Library (1918)
"Jean giraudoux, translated by Elizabeth S. Sergeant. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. S pl, 3-272 p., 1 1. 8°. ..."

4. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1922)
"giraudoux, J. Adorable Clio. Werth. Clavel chez les Majors. Follows Clavel Soldat (1919). Daudet, Mme. Alphonse. • Journal de Guerre et de Famille. ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"giraudoux, J. $1.90 Putnam Swain, George Fillmore. The young man and civil engineering. 12° Macmillan Swasey, Robert. Kendall's sister. ..."

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