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Synonyms for feuilleton

Grammar : Noun
Spell : foi-i-tn; French fœyuh-tawn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔɪ ɪ tn; French fœyəˈtɔ̃

Définition of feuilleton

Origin :
  • part of a French newspaper devoted to light literature and criticism (usually at the bottom of a page and separated by a rule), 1845, from French feuilleton (18c.), literally "a leaflet (added to a newspaper)," diminutive of feuille "leaf," from Latin folium (see folio).
  • Esp. applied in F. to the short story or serial with which newspapers filled up after the fall of Napoleon left them short of war news. This was the beginning of Dumas' and Eugène Sue's long novels. [Weekley]
  • As in remembering : noun recall
Example sentences :
  • In 1827-28, during its palmiest days, the Constitutionnel had no Roman feuilleton.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
  • "I always like to read the feuilleton on the drama," I said.
  • Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Fedor Ivnitch shuddered: the feuilleton was marked with a pencil.
  • Extract from : « A Nobleman's Nest » by Ivan Turgenieff
  • These extracts do not occur in the feuilleton as published in English.
  • Extract from : « The Key to the Bront Works » by John Malham-Dembleby
  • He is also to publish a new novel in the feuilleton of the Siècle.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851 » by Various
  • You write: "If I were the editor I would have returned this feuilleton to you for your own good."
  • Extract from : « Letters of Anton Chekhov » by Anton Chekhov
  • Then I picked up a French paper and proceeded to read it—all but the feuilleton.
  • Extract from : « A Book of Ghosts » by Sabine Baring-Gould
  • It was like Jules Janin to make his own marriage the subject of a Feuilleton.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 » by Various
  • The class of work they chiefly study is the feuilleton, and the fashionable novel.
  • Extract from : « Froth » by Armando Palacio Valds
  • "You speak as if it were a feuilleton in the 'Figaro,'" observed the marquis.
  • Extract from : « The American » by Henry James

Antonyms for feuilleton

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