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Definition of Latin quarter
1. Noun. The region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life.
Generic synonyms: Locality, Neck Of The Woods, Neighborhood, Neighbourhood, Vicinity
Group relationships: Capital Of France, City Of Light, French Capital, Paris
Terms within: Quai D'orsay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latin Quarter
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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