Definitions from Wiktionary (Parnassian)

▸ noun:  (entomology) A papilionid butterfly of the holarctic alpine genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae; an apollo butterfly.
▸ adjective:  (entomology) Of, relating to, or designating papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae, consisting of the apollo butterflies.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to Parnassus, as the source of literary (especially poetic) inspiration; (hence) of or belonging to poetry.
▸ adjective:  (poetry, from Gerard Manley Hopkins' writings) Describing a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration.
▸ adjective:  (literature, historical) Of or relating to the Parnassianism movement of French poetry in the years 1850 to 1900, whose adherents rejected Romanticism and instead favored classicism with its formal structure and emotional detachment.
▸ noun:  (rare) A poet.
▸ noun:  A French poet of the Parnassianism movement.


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