| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Beauvoir, Simone de |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Beau·voir |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b -vwär |
| DATES: | 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.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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