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nom de plume

Noun

Meaning

an author's pseudonym

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nom-de-plume

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Cornetist Rex Stewart recalled that Morton had chosen "the nom de plume 'Morton' to protect his family from disgrace if he was identified as a whorehouse 'professor'." Source: Internet

In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Source: Internet

Mansel, 70. Suleiman himself was an accomplished poet, writing in Persian and Turkish under the takhallus (nom de plume) Muhibbi ( محبی main, "Lover"). Source: Internet

Nabokov stayed in Berlin, where he had become a recognised poet and writer within the émigré community and published under the nom de plume V. Sirin (a reference to the fabulous bird of Russian folklore). Source: Internet

; nom de plume : originally a "back-translation" from the English "pen name": author's pseudonym. ; nouveau (pl. Source: Internet

After the war she returned to Houston and became a columnist for the Houston Chronicle writing under the nom de plume of “ACEess.” Source: Internet

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