fāˈlēbrə, -r ə noun
( plural felibres -rəz, -r ə )
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: French félibre, from Provençal felibre felibre, any one of the learned men with whom Jesus at the age of twelve disputed in the Temple (Lk 2:46), perhaps from Late Latin fellebris being not yet weaned, from Latin fellare, felare to suck — more at feminine
: a member or supporter of the Felibrige, a literary association of Provençal writers founded near Avignon in 1854 especially for the maintenance and purification of Provençal as a literary language