feuilleton

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But read the part of this feuilleton which is marked in pencil," he added, giving her the copy of the newspaper he had brought with him.

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  1. noun The part of a European newspaper devoted to light fiction, reviews, and articles of general entertainment.
  2. noun An article appearing in such a section.
  3. noun A novel published in installments.

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  • The “Crock of Gold” has been translated complete as a feuilleton both in French and German by newspapers; and I have copies somewhere,—but I know not who wrote the French, the German authoress having been the Fraulein Von Lagerstroem. —  My Life as an Author
  • Here is “Marmorne” as an example, published in America, in England, in France, both in Hachette's “Bibliotheque des meilleurs Romans Etrangers,” and as a feuilleton in the “Temps,” also in the Tauchnitz collection, unanimously well received by the press; said to be “ le roman de l'annee” by the “Revue des Deux Mondes,” and still bringing considerably less than L200 to the author's purse. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • He means, of course, to draw attention to the fact that sporting chatter, dislocation of the neck, and the removal of superfluous portions of the ears are still provided free of charge Anti-Climax From a feuilleton (showing what our serial fictionists have to put up with To-morrow?' —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916
  • We don't wonder that two foreign languages were required to veil this shocking observation From a feuilleton ("dramatic, kinema and all other rights secured So he just shook hands all round, and took off his coat, and lit a cigar, and laughed when Betty Cardon pointed out that he had put the wrong end of it in his mouth." —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31
  • This novel, translated into Spanish by José Joaquín de Mora, appeared as the feuilleton of El Heraldo (1849), and was received with marked favour. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
 

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  1. French, from feuillet, sheet of paper, little leaf, diminutive of feuille, leaf, from Old French foille, from Latin folium; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, diminutive of feuillet, a leaf, sheet: see feuillet.
 

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