flaneur
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
flaneur (plural flaneurs)
- One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace.
- 2009, Barry Estabrook, Gourmet October 2009, "Good Living", page 57:
- Portsmouth is a flaneur’s dream come true, a place that simply begs to be explored randomly and on foot.
- 2009, Barry Estabrook, Gourmet October 2009, "Good Living", page 57:
- An idler, a loafer.
- (wanderer) ambler, saunterer, stroller, wanderer
- (idler) See Thesaurus:idler
- French: promeneur, baladeur, flâneur
- German: Flaneur
- Italian: bighellone, perdigiorno, vitellone
- Russian: фланёр
- Spanish: vagante, vagueante, callejero, azotacalles, paseante ocioso, mirón
flaneur (flaneurs, present participle flaneuring; past and past participle flaneured)
- To wander aimlessly or at a lounging pace. [since at least the 1860s]
- 1867, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, page 64:
- Meantime, we flaneured about the Guernsey market, and a remarkable pretty sight it was this bright morning.
- 2015, Bruce Bauman, Broken Sleep, Other Press, LLC (ISBN 9781590514498):
- Still, I wrote him often, and although I missed him, through autumn I contentedly flaneured about. At Alchemy's Christmas break we flew to Paris and stayed at Nathaniel's flat on Rue du Cherche-Midi. The three of us would lahdidah to the Luxembourg Gardens, where we read Alchemy the French canon of subversive lit.
- 1867, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, page 64:
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