roman à clefn.

Brit.

/rə(ʊ)ˌmɒ̃ a ˈkleɪ/,

/rə(ʊ)ˌman a ˈkleɪ/, U.S.

/roʊˌmɑn ə ˈkleɪ/

Inflections: Plural romans à clef.

Forms: 1800s roman a clef, 1800s– roman à clef.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French roman à clef.

Etymology: < French roman à clef (1863 or earlier) < roman roman n.² + à with + clef key (1690 (in la clef d'un roman ) with reference to a central character or passage which serves to explain a novel (compare key n.¹ 5a); extended use of clef key: see clef n.¹).In plural form romans à clef after the French plural form.

A novel in which actual people or events are represented in disguised form, as by the use of fictitious names.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel

political novel1735

comic novel1787

epistolary1804

autobiographical novel1832

Robinsonade1837

roman1867

sea-book1867

roman à clef1882

roman expérimental1884

hill-top novel1895

saga1895

Bildungsroman1910

pulp fiction1931

American Gothic1938

Künstlerroman1941

suspense novel1952

nouveau roman1959

sword and sorcery1961

graphic novel1964

non-fiction novel1965

schlockbuster1966

dark fantasy1968

celebrity novel1969

swashbuckler1975

chick lit1988

splatterpunk1988

Aga saga1992

1882 A. W. Ward Dickens v. 117 That art of mystification which the authors of both English and French romans a clef have since practised with so much transient success.

1893 H. James Let. 23 Jan. in P. Gunn Vernon Lee (1964) x. 138 Her books of fiction are a tissue of personalities of this hideous roman-à-clef kind.

1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood 5 They pass at last..into more or less honest fact telling, into ‘historical reconstruction’, the roman à clef, biography, history and autobiography.

1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 184/2 A roman à clef whose skeleton key would seem to be the unsavory case of Alice Crimmins and her two murdered children.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 5 May 96/3 The young dirt-disher reads from her thinly veiled roman-à-clef, The Devil Wears Prada.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	roman à clef
释义	roman à clefn. Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˌmɒ̃ a ˈkleɪ/, /rə(ʊ)ˌman a ˈkleɪ/, U.S. /roʊˌmɑn ə ˈkleɪ/ Inflections: Plural romans à clef. Forms: 1800s roman a clef, 1800s– roman à clef. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French roman à clef. Etymology: < French roman à clef (1863 or earlier) < roman roman n.² + à with + clef key (1690 (in la clef d'un roman ) with reference to a central character or passage which serves to explain a novel (compare key n.¹ 5a); extended use of clef key: see clef n.¹).In plural form romans à clef after the French plural form. A novel in which actual people or events are represented in disguised form, as by the use of fictitious names. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel political novel1735 comic novel1787 epistolary1804 autobiographical novel1832 Robinsonade1837 roman1867 sea-book1867 roman à clef1882 roman expérimental1884 hill-top novel1895 saga1895 Bildungsroman1910 pulp fiction1931 American Gothic1938 Künstlerroman1941 suspense novel1952 nouveau roman1959 sword and sorcery1961 graphic novel1964 non-fiction novel1965 schlockbuster1966 dark fantasy1968 celebrity novel1969 swashbuckler1975 chick lit1988 splatterpunk1988 Aga saga1992 1882 A. W. Ward Dickens v. 117 That art of mystification which the authors of both English and French romans a clef have since practised with so much transient success. 1893 H. James Let. 23 Jan. in P. Gunn Vernon Lee (1964) x. 138 Her books of fiction are a tissue of personalities of this hideous roman-à-clef kind. 1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood 5 They pass at last..into more or less honest fact telling, into ‘historical reconstruction’, the roman à clef, biography, history and autobiography. 1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 184/2 A roman à clef whose skeleton key would seem to be the unsavory case of Alice Crimmins and her two murdered children. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 5 May 96/3 The young dirt-disher reads from her thinly veiled roman-à-clef, The Devil Wears Prada. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882
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