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Parnassian

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Parnassian /pɑːˈnasɪən/

▶adjective

1 relating to poetry; poetic.

2 denoting a group of French poets who emphasized strictness of form, named from the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain (1866).

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