oeuvre de vulgarisationn.
/ˌəːvrə də ˌvʌlɡərɪzasˈjɒ̃/, /ˌəːvrə də ˌvʌlɡ(ə)rʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈʊvrə də ˌvəlɡərɪzɑsˈjɑn/, /ˈʊvrə də ˌvəlɡərəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ A work which attempts to make an academic or esoteric subject accessible to the general public.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > popularly conveying esoteric knowledge
oeuvre de vulgarisation1909
1909 Amer. Hist. Rev. 14 343 Perhaps the omission was deliberate and due to the belief that such matters were too technical for an oeuvre de vulgarisation.
1929 Mind 38 409 This book is not merely an œuvre de vulgarisation: were it so there would be nothing for a writer in Mind to do except to extol it.
1962 Economist 14 Apr. 141/3 An oeuvre de vulgarisation to bring his fifteen volume history..before a wider public.
1995 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Mar. 16 I was once mortified to be introduced as the author of a scientific oeuvre de vulgarisation; but in fact that signifies only a ‘popular work’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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