Definition of Cocteau

1. Noun. French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocteau

Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier
Cockerney
Cockett communicating perforating veins
Cockney
Cockney rhyming slang
Cockneydom
Cockneyish
Cockneys
Cocoa
Cocoliche
Cocopa
Cocopah
Cocos
Cocos Islander
Cocos nucifera
Cocteau (current term)
Cocus
Cocytus
Codariocalyx
Codariocalyx motorius
Codegua
Codex medicamentarius
Codiaeum
Codiaeum variegatum
Codies
Codman's sign
Codman's triangle
Codman's tumour
Cody
Coe virus

Literary usage of Cocteau

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide to Provence & the Cote D'Azur by Ferne Arfin (2005)
"The Chapelle Cocteau In 1961, shortly before he died, France's latter-day Renaissance man, Jean Cocteau - who was playwright, filmmaker, poet and artist ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1868)
"Cocteau, MD, etc., etc.] WITHOUT being able to boast of much original ... Dr Cocteau seems to think that, in those cases of purulent infection where, ..."

3. Daytrips France: 48 One Day Adventures by Rail, Bus Or Car by Earl Steinbicker (2005)
"The Jean Cocteau Museum ® lies just beyond this, housed in a small ... Cocteau, who died in 1963, was primarily known asa talented poet, writer, ..."

4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"Cocteau presented in 1837 to the French Academy his great table of the ... the species which belong to three of the tribes of the family which Cocteau named ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Cocteau wrote of the stick of barley sugar, the longer you suck it the ... Thus Mr. Jean Cocteau teaching the French by parable the danger of art for the ..."

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