feuilletonist

feuilletonist

English

Etymology

From French feuilletoniste; synchronically, feuilleton +‎ -ist.

Noun

feuilletonist (plural feuilletonists)

1. A writer of feuilletons.
   • 1905, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese

     In 1895, while Japan was busy beating China, and had convinced herself that she could beat the world, one of the Tōkyō papers achieved a success by the publication of a serial noved entitled Asahi-Zakura, by a feuilletonist called Murai Gensai.

   • 1840, Honoré de Balzac (translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley), Pierre Grassou

     But for all this, Grassou gave excellent counsel, like those feuilletonists incapable of writing a book who know very well where a book is wanting.

Translations

a writer of feuilletons

Czech: fejetonista m German: Feuilletonist (de) m Polish: felietonista (pl) m

Romanian: foiletonist (ro) m, foiletonistă (ro) f Yiddish: פֿעליעטאָניסט‎ m (felyetonist)

Further reading

• feuilletonist at OneLook Dictionary Search