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单词 roman-fleuve
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roman-fleuven.

Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˌmɑːnˈfləːv/, /ˌrəʊmɑːnˈfləːv/, U.S. /roʊˌmɑnˈfləv/
Inflections: Plural romans-fleuve, romans-fleuves.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French roman-fleuve.
Etymology: < French roman-fleuve (1928 or earlier, attributed to Albert Thibaudet) < roman roman n.2 + fleuve stream (mid 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman as fluive ; < classical Latin fluvius : see fluvio- comb. form).Not fully naturalized in English. In plural forms after the French plural forms (both romans-fleuve and romans-fleuves are attested in French, although the former is the more common plural form).
A connected sequence of self-contained novels which follow the lives or fortunes of an individual, family, society, or the like.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sequence or series of novels
comédie humaine1876
roman-fleuve1936
1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 121/3 Those great romans-fleuves whose unnumbered volumes have no other purpose than to show us to ourselves as we appear.
1974 Bookseller 15 June 2696/3 He [sc. Anthony Powell] obviously feels reasonably protective towards the maestro of the roman fleuve.
1992 V. Cunningham in M. Bradbury & J. Cooke New Writing 232 The poet and biographer Andrew Motion, for example, has launched himself into what was promised as a grand roman fleuve.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Nov. (Sat. Review section) 13 In the third part of the Potter roman-fleuve, Peter Pettigrew pretends that Sirius Black has killed him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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