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boulevardier

NOUN
  1. a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris)

How To Use boulevardier In A Sentence

  • Gorodetsky is cast as a boulevardier, sitting at a little table having a coffee. Festooned With Fantasy
  • Van Gogh hoped that together they could start a school of artists in the south, in contrast to ‘those decadent and rotten Parisian boulevardiers.’
  • But he's not just the witty boulevardier whose model looks have made him the thinking female student's crumpet for years.
  • I shall take my time returning home, and will do my utmost to play the part of the idle downtown boulevardier today.
  • Christine, the boulevardier, made it a point to do it up big at Ascot one year in London.
  • If Menotti looks like the sort of care-worn, silk-shirted boulevardier you might stumble across singing a mournful version of For the Good Times in a Stockholm cabaret, Bilardo is the psychotic sea captain who'd jump on stage, slit his throat and fashion a necklace out of his vertebrae. Dressingroomistas v Structuralists: football's perennial problem
  • He took up drinking in earnest as a young artillery officer on his way to World War I when he discovered that alcohol miraculously transformed him from an awkward quarryman's son to a sophisticated boulevardier.
  • But we are rapidly becoming a society of religious boulevardiers, always on the move, not as itinerant monks who bring our faith with us, but as God-shoppers on the lookout for the best deal.
  • It turns the boulevardier into a sequestered individual, the flaneur into a figure of privacy.
  • My Merriam-Webster 11th Edition, the standard medium-size 'Merkin dictionary, has "boulevardier" as showing up in 1871 as "a frequenter of the Parisian boulevards, broadly: MAN-ABOUT-TOWN". Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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