Meaning of GENET
Pronunciation: | | 'jenit, zhu'ney
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- [n] agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail
- [n] French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
- [n] French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)
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| Synonyms: | | Citizen Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Genetta genetta, Jean Genet |
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| See Also: | | diplomat, diplomatist, dramatist, Genetta, genus Genetta, novelist, playwright, viverrine, viverrine mammal | |
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| Definition: | | Genet The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few years before she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Genet. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Gen"et\ (j[e^]n"[e^]t or j[-e]*n[e^]t"), Genette
\Gen"et\, n. [See {Jennet}.]
A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.
--Shak.
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