Claudel

[ kloh-del ]

noun

1. Camille, 1864–1943, French sculptor.
2. Paul (Louis Charles) [pawl lwee sh, a, r, l], 1868–1955, French diplomat, poet, and dramatist.

Claudel

/ klodɛl /

noun

1. ClaudelPaul (Louis Charles Marie)18681955MFrenchTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: poetPOLITICS: diplomat Paul ( Louis Charles Marie ) (pɔl). 1868–1955, French dramatist, poet, and diplomat, whose works testify to his commitment to the Roman Catholic faith. His plays include L'Annonce faite à Marie (1912) and Le Soulier de satin (1919–24)

Example Sentences

The Investigator is “a disappearing person, no sooner seen than forgotten,” Claudel writes.

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Mrs. Claudel if she believed in dreams as much as Hattie and had dreamed that her mother was dead would put on mourning.

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Claudel moved that Norwood should be made a member of the committee; and this, of course, was bitterly opposed by the radicals.

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But then, a little later, it began to be suspected that she had designs upon Comrade Claudel, the Belgian jeweller.

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Adrienne reads aloud to us in the evenings; a man called Claudel; awfully stiff French to follow but rather beautiful.

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Claudel, even more remote as a thinker from Nietzsche than Péguy, exhibits a kindred temper in the ingrained violence of his art.

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