Parnassian adjective & noun.
[pɑ:'nasɪǝn] M17.[from Latin Parnas(s)ius, -eus, formed as PARNASSUS: see -AN, -IAN.]A. adjective.
1. Of or pertaining to Parnassus; of or pertaining to poetry, poetic.
M17.2. 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.
1. A poet.
M17.2. spec. A French poet of the Parnassian group.
L19.3. 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
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