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Parnassian (iou)



Parnassian adjective & noun. M17.
[from Latin Parnas(s)ius, -eus, formed as PARNASSUS: see -AN, -IAN.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to Parnassus; of or pertaining to poetry, poetic. M17.
spec. Of or pertaining to a group of French poets in the latter half of the 19th cent., emphasizing strictness of form, (named from the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain (1866)). E20.
b. noun.
A poet. M17.
spec. A French poet of the Parnassian group. L19.
Entomology. A papilionid butterfly of the holarctic alpine genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae containing it, related to the swallowtails. E20.
Parnassianism noun the Parnassian style in poetry E20.