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roman a clef

noun as in novel disguising real people as characters

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Rare is the roman à clef where you think you can identify every single real person in it.

MVP By James Boice This is a roman à clef about Kobe Bryant.

The roman à clef is always popular with scandal-mongers, but its authors can hardly hope to escape rebuke.

Had Madame d'Epinay merely intended to write a roman à clef?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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