feuilleton

[ foi-i-tn; French fœyuh-tawn ]

noun

, plural feuil·le·tons [foi, -i-tnz, f, œ, y, uh, -, tawn].

1. a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
2. an item printed in the feuilleton.

feuilleton

/ fœjtɔ̃; ˈfʊɪˌtɒn /

noun

1. the part of a European newspaper carrying reviews, serialized fiction, etc
2. such a review or article

Derived Forms

• ˈfeuilletonism, noun
• ˈfeuilletonist, noun
• ˌfeuilletonˈistic, adjective

Other Words From

• feuil·le·ton·ism [foi, -i-tn-iz-, uh, m, fœ, -yi-], noun
• feuille·ton·ist noun
• feuille·ton·istic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of feuilleton¹

1835–45; < French, equivalent to feuillet little leaf ( feuille (< Latin folium leaf ) + -et -et ) + -on noun suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of feuilleton¹

C19: from French, from feuillet sheet of paper, diminutive of feuille leaf, from Latin folium

Example Sentences

Before Roth found success as a novelist, he established himself as one of Europe’s leading writers of the feuilleton, a form that originated as a “talk of the town” newspaper supplement in 19th-century France.

From Washington Post

From the earliest days of The New Yorker—indeed, from its very first issue, which was dated February 21, 1925—the magazine’s reportage, criticism, and feuilleton have been paired with cartoons.

From The New Yorker

In 1969, Perec told his editor Maurice Nadeau that he was planning an adventure novel which was to appear serially, feuilleton style, as the stories of Jules Verne had.

From The New Yorker

The words appear to have increased in difficulty over time — therapy, initials and dulcimer in the 1940s compared to appoggiatura, guetapens and feuilleton in the last decade — but the contestants’ expressions of puzzlement, exasperation and triumph are timeless.

From Time

But they do not leech news and pass it off as their own; by directing readers to a Boston Globe essay about the Freedom Summer, or Bertrand Russell’s feuilleton in Harper’s celebrating idleness, they collect and highlight, instead of scrambling and reselling.

From Newsweek