| E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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| Crebillon = terrible. |
| Dumas = imaginative |
| Fénelon = fabulous. |
| Le Sage = humorous. |
| Molière = comic. |
| Montaigne = thoughtful. |
| Rabelais = unclean. |
| Rousseau = amorous, |
| Victor Hugo = incendiary. |
| Zola = licentious; Zolaesque, in the manner or style of Zola, the French novelist. | |
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