parnassian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of Parnassus, a mountain in C. Greece, in antiquity sacred to the Muses.
2 poetic.
3 of or relating to a group of French poets in the late 19th c., emphasizing strictness of form, named from the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain (1866).
--n. a member of this group.