Baudelaire

American  

[bohd-l-air, bohd^uh-ler] / ˌboʊd lˈɛər, boʊdəˈlɛr /

noun

1. Charles Pierre 1821–67, French poet and critic.

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Baudelaire British  

/ bodlɛr /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Dandyism, Baudelaire wrote in 1863, was “a setting sun.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Spend any time with the garrulous Reggio and he’ll invoke wisdom from Nietzsche, Plato, Baudelaire.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

But I found a different line on a mock street sign on the Rue Charles Baudelaire, in a middle-class neighborhood of the city’s 12th arrondissement: “There, there’s only order, beauty: abundant, calm, voluptuous.”

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2023

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 • Feb. 15, 2023

She then went over to the cardboard box and took out the ugliest of the clothes that Mrs. Poe had purchased, the outfits the Baudelaire orphans would never wear no matter how desperate they were.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket