Baudelaire

[ bohd-l-air; French bohduh-ler ]

noun

1. Charles Pierre [sh, a, r, l pye, r], 1821–67, French poet and critic.

Baudelaire

/ bodlɛr /

noun

1. BaudelaireCharles Pierre18211867MFrenchWRITING: poet Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)

Example Sentences

As a teenager, the Chinese artist Tao Siqi was fascinated by the words of Charles Baudelaire, the French poet who was not exactly known for imagery of sweeping landscapes and cities in the rain.

From New York Times

His poetry in particular drew heavily from the European modernist tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Ezra Pound, though it remained rooted in its themes and imagery to the Piedmont South.

From New York Times

“Are you the Mrs. Baudelaire? The famous nose of all of Paris? You look too young.”

From Literature

In it, he explored his own experiences with the drug cannabis at the Paris-based Club des Hachichins—some of which took place alongside the likes of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire.

From Scientific American

It was Baudelaire, from after he saw Wagner’s “Tannhaüser”: “I’ve witnessed a spectacle of time, space and light that I have never experienced before.”

From New York Times