Plomer

British  

/ ˈpluːmə /

noun

1. William ( Charles Franklyn ). 1903–73, British poet, novelist, and short-story writer, born in South Africa. His novels include Turbott Wolfe (1926) and The Case is Altered (1932)

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Example Sentences

My favorite exchanges are those between Fleming and two of his most trusted readers, William Plomer and Daniel George, to whom he sent early drafts of each Bond installment.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2015

Britten worked with the poet William Plomer to develop an English version of the Noh play.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2014

All is furnished – or "besprent" as the dire cod-Elizabethiana text by William Plomer might have it – with bright, toy colours and visual wit.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

While a chill nor'easterly, as Plomer might have put it, whipped around our ears, we too became part of the action.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

Plomer, Mr. Windham, and Lord Castlereagh, spoke against the motion.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas