de Beauvoir

[ duh bohv-wahr; French duh boh-vwar ]

noun

1. Si·mone [see-, mawn] Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand, 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.

de Beauvoir

/ də bovwar /

noun

1. de BeauvoirSimone19081986FFrenchWRITING: novelistPOLITICS: feminist Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le sang des autres (1944), Le deuxième sexe (1949), and Les mandarins (1954)

Example Sentences

Instead, she suggested they should read Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir or Charlotte Bronte.

From Salon

Ms. Chen was lounging in the attic reading nook of a bookstore, perusing the Simone de Beauvoir novel “All Men Are Mortal.”

From New York Times

“Fitting In” opens with consecutive quotes from Simone de Beauvoir and “Jennifer’s Body,” as if to telegraph that its story straddles culture of both the high and pop variety.

From New York Times

Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were wowed by him when they finally met in Rome in 1961.

From Los Angeles Times

“When I held his feverish hand, I felt that I was touching the passion that burned,” gushed de Beauvoir.

From Los Angeles Times