boulevardier
Noun
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Noun
boulevardier (plural boulevardiers)
- A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 20:
- Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 20:
boulevardier (boulevardiers, present participle boulevardiering; past and past participle boulevardiered)
- (intransitive) To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
- 1914, Robert Page Lincoln, "Wood Hollow Days", Chapter VI, Forest and Stream (83) (Dec 5, 1914) p. 739 ↗
- One spectacular being clothed liked a boulevardiering cavalier and having the mein of a finished chesterfieldian gentleman was noted seated in an oak near the cabin one day. ... It was a northern butcher-bird, the aggressive shrike ....
- 1999, Bruce Dundore, "The Eagle Has Landed", Advertising Age (May 1, 1999)
- It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.
- 2010, Chris Moss, 1000 Great Holiday Ideas (Time Out Books) p. 110 ↗
- For that quick romantic getaway, a weekend in the city of love, especially in spring or autumn, still delivers in terms of candlelit bistros, afternoons in cafés and boulevardiering in the Marais.
- 1914, Robert Page Lincoln, "Wood Hollow Days", Chapter VI, Forest and Stream (83) (Dec 5, 1914) p. 739 ↗
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