PARNASSIAN


Meaning of PARNASSIAN in English

adj. & n.

adj. 1 of Parnassus, a mountain in c. Greece, in antiquity sacred to the Muses. 2 poetic. 3 of or relating to a group of French poets in the late 19th c., emphasizing strictness of form, named from the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain (1866).

n. a member of this group.

Concise Oxford English dictionary.      Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка.