Apollinaire

[ uh-pol-uh-nair; French a-paw-lee-ner ]

noun

1. Guil·laume [gee-, yohm], Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, 1880–1918, French poet and art critic, born in Italy.

Apollinaire

/ apɔlinɛr /

noun

1. ApollinaireGuillaume18801918MFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist Guillaume (ɡijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880–1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and Calligrammes (1918)

Example Sentences

In the newspaper L’Intransigeant, the modernist poet Guillaume Apollinaire praised the portrait: “The Mona Lisa was so beautiful that her perfection has come to be taken for granted.”

From Literature

But so far, there has not been any official confirmation about an agreement between the Wagner Group and Burkina Faso, even though Prime Minister Apollinaire Kyelem recently visited Russia.

From BBC

He had previously used several Iberian stone statuettes stolen from the Louvre by a friend of a friend, the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire, as a model for his 1907 painting “Demoiselles d’Avignon.”

From New York Times

The term itself was coined in 1917 by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire.

From Washington Post

Jacob, a gifted French poet and painter, palled around early-20th-century Paris with modernism’s greats — Picasso, Apollinaire, Cocteau.

From New York Times