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Beauvoir

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Beau·voir  (b-vwär), Simone de 1908-1986.
French writer, existentialist, and feminist whose works include The Second Sex (1949) and The Coming of Age (1970), a study of how different cultures view old age.

Beauvoir (French) [bovwar]
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(Biographies / Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986) F, French, WRITING: novelist, POLITICS: feminist) Simone de (simɔn də). 1908-86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le sang des autres (1944),
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Noun1.Beauvoir - French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)


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