Definition of Latin Quarter

1. Noun. The region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Latin Quarter

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Latian
Latic
Latimeria
Latimeria chalumnae
Latimeridae
Latin
Latin-American
Latin-American Spanish
Latin America
Latin American
Latin Americans
Latin Quarter (current term)
Latin alphabet
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Latin alphas
Latin cross
Latin name
Latin names
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Latinas
Latinate
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Latines

Literary usage of Latin Quarter

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

1. A Wanderer in Paris by Edward Verrall Lucas (1909)
"CHAPTER XI THE Latin Quarter Old Prints — Procope, Tortoni, ... THE high road from the centre of Paris to the Latin Quarter is across the Pont du Carrousel ..."

2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"... the Latin Quarter still retains many old building whoso imposing architecture singularly contrasts with the unassuming habits of their present occupants ..."

3. Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile by Herman Melville (1855)
"FRANKLIN AND THE Latin Quarter. first, both in point of time and merit, of American envoys was famous not less for the pastoral simplicity of his manners ..."

4. Literary Haunts & Homes: American Authors by Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe (1893)
"... has sometimes been styled the " Latin Quarter" of New York. Within this region a few of the pioneer American authors, many of those who belonged to what ..."

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