Associations to the word «Goncourt»

Dictionary definition

GONCOURT, noun. French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870).
GONCOURT, noun. French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats