SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC
\savˈɪni͡ən sɪɹˈɑːnə͡ʊ də bˈɜːd͡ʒəɹˌak], \savˈɪniən sɪɹˈɑːnəʊ də bˈɜːdʒəɹˌak], \s_a_v_ˈɪ_n_iə_n s_ɪ_ɹ_ˈɑː_n_əʊ d_ə b_ˈɜː_dʒ_ə_ɹ_ˌa_k]\
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A French writer of literary extravaganzas (1619-55); born at Paris. He was a famous duelist, and fought more than a thousand single combats, most of them provoked by comments on his enormously overgrown nose. In style and composition he is without taste or judgment; but he is always sprightly and fanciful, often witty and ingenious. Boileau noted his "daring burlesque". He wrote: "Letters", amorous or satirical; a "Comic History of the States and Empire of the Moon", and another "Of the Sun", both full of metaphysical and satirical passages in the vein later made famous by Swift, to whom they are thought to have suggested "Gulliver". His one tragedy, "Agrippina", evinces great dramatic power; he wrote also a clever comedy, "The Pedant Laughing-Stock".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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