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Bourgeois   /bʊrʒwˈɑ/  /bˈʊrʒwɑ/   Listen
Bourgeois

adjective
1.
(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class.
2.
Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.  Synonyms: conservative, materialistic.
3.
Belonging to the middle class.
noun
1.
A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise.  Synonym: businessperson.
2.
A member of the middle class.  Synonym: burgher.



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"Bourgeois" Quotes from Famous Books



... when anything clumsy or gross occurred. Later, when his three children were growing up, and he seemed a staid, almost middle-aged man, he turned after strange women, and became a silent, inscrutable follower of forbidden pleasure, neglecting his indignant bourgeois ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... must be an ass then," said Mansell. "Why, look at Richmore, and Parry; and even old Johnson has little respect for a bourgeois morality." ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh
... and all four gentlemen were smoking. But it was refused, and again refused on being preferred a second time, very civilly; whereupon the elderly gentleman put his umbrella through the glass. "Shall we stand the impertinence of this bourgeois?" said the officers to one another. "Never." And they thrust four cards into his hand, which he received methodically, and looked carefully at all four; producing his own, one of which he tendered to each ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various
... of Cherubini [writes Veron in his "Memoires d'un Bourgeois de Paris"] was open to artists, amateurs, and people of good society; and every Monday a numerous assembly thronged his salons. All foreign artists wished to be presented to Cherubini. During these last years one met often at his house Hummel, ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... ushered into the finest room of the inn, in which the Officer received them, stretched on an armchair, his feet resting on the mantelpiece, and smoking a long porcelain pipe, wrapped in a flamboyant dressing-robe, no doubt stolen from the abandoned residence of some bourgeois lacking in taste. He did not get up, neither did he greet them nor look at them. He was a magnificent specimen of the insolence ...
— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant


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