[F. littérateur, ad. L. litterātor, f. littera letter.] A literary man, a writer of literary or critical works.
1806. Edin. Rev., VII. 364. During a part of this time he lives with a profligate literateur [sic] of the name of Beauvin.
1816. Byron, in Moore, Lett. & Jrnls. (1830), II. 10. He [Bonstetten] is also a littérateur of good repute.
1854. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sk., Wks. II. 348. Like Gibbon, he [Southey] was the most accomplished littérateur amongst the erudite scholars of his time.
1882. P. Fitzgerald, Recreat. Lit. Man, I. ii. 8. For many years now, I have been an industrious littérateur of all work.
