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faust
/faʊst/
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What does faust mean?
proper noun
- A magician and alchemist of German lore who sold his soul to the Devil for knowledge and power.
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation
/faʊst/
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Considered as a poem among classic German poems, it must rank next to, though immeasurably below, Goethe's "Faust."
The Sept cordes de la lyre is a dramatic poem after the manner of Faust.
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The thing had happened in M. Debienne and M. Poligny's time, also in Box Five and also during a performance of FAUST.
As he strode over a gutter, he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand.
Hurstwood found that he could not talk, repressed as he was, and grudging Drouet every moment of his presence, he bowed himself out with the elegance of a Faust.