Proust

[ proost; French proost ]

/ prust; French prust /

noun

Jo·seph Louis

[zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/,1754–1826, French chemist.

Mar·cel

[mahr-sel; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl; French marˈsɛl/,1871–1922, French novelist.

Example sentences from the Web for proust

Whitman is made to share a chapter, lumped in with Proust, Wilde, and Baudelaire, in which he is allotted a mere paragraph.

John Sutherland‘s Enjoyable Little History of Literature |Malcolm Forbes |November 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Proust is, in addition to everything else, very funny; much funnier, in fact, than all those New Yorker cartoons.

Proustapalooza: Going Crazy for Marcel’s Novel at 100 |Elisabeth Ladenson |October 3, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Proust was himself, to a great extent, responsible for this.

Proustapalooza: Going Crazy for Marcel’s Novel at 100 |Elisabeth Ladenson |October 3, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The title poem rushes forward with a gorgeous hydraulic motion, as if Proust had been sped up and turned into a Town Car.

Wayne Koestenbaum’s Book Bag: The Best of the ’80s |Wayne Koestenbaum |August 13, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Proust liked to have two cups with milk, but Auden, quite to the contrary, only took one.

What Do Great Artists’ Routines Reveal? |Alexander Aciman |May 9, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Other chemists suppose that the hordeine of Proust is merely a mixture of the bran of the barley with starch and gluten.

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines |Andrew Ure
According to Proust hordeine is a yellowish powder, not unlike fine saw-dust.

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines |Andrew Ure
The peculiar associated impulses are specially clear in the cases of Proust and Mesnet.

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung
Proust has lately announced the discovery of a native sulphuret of manganese.

The Mosaic History of the Creation of the World |Thomas Wood
Next we may mention two cases reported by Dr. Proust and M. Boeteau.

Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death |Frederick W. H. Myers

British Dictionary definitions for proust

Proust

/ (French prust) /

noun

Joseph Louis (ʒozɛf lwi). 1754–1826, French chemist, who formulated the law of constant proportions

Marcel (marsɛl). 1871–1922, French novelist whose long novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27) deals with the relationship of the narrator to themes such as art, time, memory, and society

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