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Definition of Cenacles
1. cenacle [n] - See also: cenacle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cenacles
Literary usage of Cenacles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Finis pyramidis; or, Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific by Thomas Gabb (1806)
"It appears probable, this difference was in con? sequence of a retrenchment, in
the thickness of the outward wall of the cenacles: on the ground story, ..."
2. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"... initiated cenacles, frugality and segregation. The music alone carried on the
esoteric undertone, silence spread with great feathers, poised hawk-wise. ..."
3. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"... the tendency of youthful poets, prose penmen, and others to form schools, to
create cenacles, to begin fighting before they have any defined ideal. ..."
4. William Makepeace Thackeray by Charles Whibley (1903)
"Did he not frequent the cenacles of the Latin Quarter, and print his verses in
the journals of the decadence ? True, these types are eternal; but Thackeray, ..."
5. The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier (1897)
"He is the recognized chief of two successive " cenacles." The first had made but
a timid effort to effect a transition from Classic taste to newer ..."
6. Paris and the Social Revolution: A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in by Alvan Francis Sanborn (1905)
"... the Baron Y and the leather merchant X , in their homes, and when he has made
the round of the cenacles at which he is welcome for the verses he recites ..."
7. Modern French Literature by Benjamin Willis Wells (1909)
"But with the founding of the " Globe " and the gathering of the cenacles the
current of criticism divides. One branch lingers in the sluggish channels of an ..."
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