Lexicographical Neighbors of Degout
Literary usage of Degout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Étienne Dolet: The Martyr of the Renaissance; a Biography by Christie, Richard Copley (1880)
"In fact the desire for posthumous fame was almost a disease with him, and this
feeling is seldom if ever combined with an 'incurable degout du monde' or an ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"... he was supposed " fami non fama; scribere;" and another in French, " Degente
de fate et affame d'argent," instead of " degout£ de fame (an old word for ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Young Daudet alluded to the unfortunate poet — «... mort de degout, de tristesse,
et d'absinthe;»— and he tried to imitate the half cynical, half nostalgic ..."
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