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parnassian

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Adjective, Noun
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Par=nas=si=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

parnassiana. [L. Parnassius.].
     Of or pertaining to Parnassus.  [1913 Webster]
parnassiann. [See Parnassus.].
     Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America.  [1913 Webster]
parnassiann. [F. parnassien.].
     One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parnassian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of Parnassus, a mountain in C. Greece, in antiquity sacred to the Muses.
2 poetic.
3 of or relating to a group of French poets in the late 19th c., emphasizing strictness of form, named from the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain (1866).
--n. a member of this group.


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