Goncourt

(French ɡɔ̃kur)

(Biography) Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de (ɛdmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃twan ɥo də), 1822–96, and his brother, Jules Alfred Huot de (ʒyl alfrɛd), 1830–70, French writers, noted for their collaboration, esp on their Journal, and for the Académie Goncourt founded by Edmond's will

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Gon•court

(gɔ̃ˈkur)

n.

Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de, 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de, 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians.

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Noun	1.	Goncourt - French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870) Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
	2.	Goncourt - French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896) Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt

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"I promised to lend her the Goncourt. Don't forget to take it down when you go; it's there on the bookshelf over the small table." Clatter, clatter, clatter, bang!

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She herself had no fears of it, and the books scattered about her drawing-room (a part of the house in which books were usually supposed to be "out of place"), though chiefly works of fiction, had whetted Archer's interest with such new names as those of Paul Bourget, Huysmans, and the Goncourt brothers.

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Moroccan-born Leila Slimani wins France's top literary prize