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Definition of Degas
1. Noun. French impressionist painter (1834-1917).
2. Verb. Remove gas from.
Definition of Degas
1. Verb. To remove the gas from something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Degas
1. to remove gas from [v -GASSED, -GASSING, -GASSES or -GASES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Degas
Literary usage of Degas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"degas does not show the great enterprise in outline, ... degas is a modern and
yet an ancient. In his inmost soul, I believe he despises modern painting. ..."
2. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"VI degas LET us suppose that gay old misogynist Arthur Schopenhauer persuaded
... But wouldn't the nudes of degas confirm the Frankfort philosopher in his ..."
3. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"degas does not show the great enterprise in outline, but he gives European art
an anatomy, ... degas is a modern and yet an ancient. In his inmost soul, ..."
4. Representative Painters of the XIXth Century by N. D'Anvers (1899)
"HILAIRE GERMAIN EDGARD degas MAN who has exercised as great, if not an even
greater, influence on the younger artists of the day than Manet, Hilaire degas ..."
5. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1896)
"Edouard Manet, degas, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sis ley, Claude Monet.—The
Impressionist movement the final phase in the great battle of liberation ..."
6. Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning by Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine (1915)
"IX degas AND HIS CIRCLE THE development of art itself is no more mechanical than
the artistic development of the individual: in both there are ..."
7. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"There are whole worlds in degas which Liebermann could not enter, ... It was
degas' taste, his choicest gift, that the German sought to rival. ..."
8. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1914)
"Manet desired modernity as earnestly as degas, but his genius saved him from the
... Manet was an instinct, degas is an intellectuality, and believes with ..."
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