Parnassian

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, n. [F. parnassien.]
     One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire
     (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made little use of
     emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name
     (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first
     poems were collected in 1866.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, a. [L. Parnassius.]
     Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, n. [See {Parnassus}.] (Zool.)
     Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the
     genus {Parnassius}. They inhabit the mountains, both in the
     Old World and in America.
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