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boulevardier

[ bool-uh-vahr-deer, boo-luh-; French booluh-var-dyey ]

noun

, plural bou·le·var·diers [b, oo, l-, uh, -vahr-, deerz, boo-l, uh, -, bool, uh, -v, a, r, -, dyey].
  1. a person who frequents the most fashionable Parisian locales.


boulevardier

/ buːlˈvɑːdɪˌeɪ /

noun

  1. (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boulevardier1

From French, dating back to 1875–80; boulevard, -ier 2
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Example Sentences

He “moves through the New York social scene with the charm and class of a boulevardier,” New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson once wrote.

A first-rank boulevardier in the 1960s tableau, his wives included one Rita Hayworth.

Gladwell the master boulevardier has in effect become his own outlier, a statistical anomaly too great to ignore.

He composed feuilletons that would have made the fortune of a boulevardier.

With swift intelligence, she felt him to be no more a boulevardier than she was light.

He made a bow which was Chesterfieldian and incidentally made answer, rattling it off with the swiftness of a boulevardier.

The Parisian courtesan was at the zenith of her extraordinary celebrity when I became a rustic boulevardier.

His walk betrayed the Parisian boulevardier, and the remnants of his clothing confirmed the opinion.

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