Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun marquis_de_sade

1 sense of marquis de sade

Sense 1
Sade, de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade -- (French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814))
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))