Definition of parnassian
English to English adjective - Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
source: Webster 1913 noun - Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America.
source: Webster 1913 - One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made the little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866.
source: Webster 1913
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