Maeterlinck

[ mey-ter-lingk; French ma-ter-lan; Flemish mah-ter-lingk ]

/ ˈmeɪ tərˌlɪŋk; French ma tɛrˈlɛ̃; Flemish ˈmɑ tɛrˌlɪŋk /

noun

Comte Mau·rice

[French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/,1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.

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Mae·ter·linck·i·an, adjective

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To trace Maeterlinck's dramatic development is like watching a materialization at a sance.

Major Prophets of To-Day |Edwin E. Slosson
Maeterlinck is an amateur botanist and bee-keeper and a professional poet.

The Critical Game |John Albert Macy
Speech, says Maeterlinck, is never the medium of communication of real and inmost thoughts.

Iconoclasts |James Huneker
It is a triumph of science that should be observed by Faber and described by Maeterlinck.

In Pastures Green |Peter McArthur

Maeterlinck has always been hostile to collectors of "copy," those great purveyors of the stuff that books are made of.

Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck |Jethro Bithell

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Maeterlinck

/ (ˈmeɪtəˌlɪŋk, French mɛtɛrlɛ̃k) /

noun

Comte Maurice (mɔris). 1862–1949, Belgian poet and dramatist, noted particularly for his symbolist plays, such as Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), which served as the basis for an opera by Debussy, and L'Oiseau bleu (1909). Nobel prize for literature 1911

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