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Belloc

[ bel-uhk, -ok ]

noun

  1. Hi·laire [hi-, lair], 1870–1953, English essayist, poet, and satirist, born in France.


Belloc

/ ˈbɛlɒk /

noun

  1. BellocHilaire18701953MBritishFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: essayistHISTORY: historian Hilaire (ˈhɪlɛə, hɪˈlɛə). 1870–1953, British poet, essayist, and historian, born in France, noted particularly for his verse for children in The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) and Cautionary Tales (1907)
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Example Sentences

The early 20th Century poet Hilaire Belloc wrote of the "lovely" Evenlode and how it bound his heart to English ground.

From BBC

Bernard Belloc, a former French diplomat in China, lives most of the year in Paris but chose to spend the lockdown in Bruniquel.

From BBC

The writer Hilaire Belloc once described Notre Dame as a matriarch whose authority is familiar, tacit and silent.

Hilaire Belloc’s ‘The Microbe’ opens with the words:

From Nature

The writer is the president of the Hilaire Belloc Society of Washington, D.C.

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