Usually means: Artistic literature focused on aesthetics.
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  1. belles-lettres: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. belles-lettres: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. belles-lettres, belles-lettres: Collins English Dictionary
  4. belles-lettres: Vocabulary.com
  5. Belles-Lettres, Belles-lettres, belles-lettres: Wordnik
  6. belles-lettres: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. belles-lettres: Wiktionary
  8. belles-lettres: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. belles-lettres: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. belles-lettres: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Belles-lettres, belles-lettres: Dictionary.com
  12. belles-lettres: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Belles-lettres: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Belles-lettres: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. belles-lettres: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. belles-lettres: Rhymezone
  17. Belles-lettres: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. belles-lettres: FreeDictionary.org
  19. belles-lettres: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. belles-lettres: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. belles-lettres: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belles-lettres: A Word A Day

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) The humanities.
noun:  (archaic) Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties.
noun:  (archaic) Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics.

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