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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Beauvoir, Simone de

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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