parvenue

How To Use parvenue In A Sentence

• I often think a parvenue, or half-bred woman, would burst if she had to do as I do. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
• The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue. Vanity Fair
• That even today a Democratic nominee speaks that way confirms G.K. Chesterton's belief that some political institutions are "parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat-of-arms. Relaxation By Exhaustion
• He presented himself as a supremely patrician figure, so different from the vulgar parvenues of the Thatcher cabinet.
• Et je suis parvenue à comprendre les éléments de physique qui y étaient exposés. Archive 2010-07-01
• Une invitation m'est d'ailleurs parvenue par e-mail. Quechup = spammeurs — Climb to the Stars
• The lady who had known the Guer-mantes since 1914 considered another who had been introduced to them in 1916 a parvenue, gave her the nod of a dowager duchess while inspecting her through her lorgnon, and avowed with a significant gesture that no one in society knew whether the lady was even married. Time Regained
• La lettre m'est parvenue dans un bien mauvais etat ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
• The lady who had known the Guer-mantes since 1914 considered another who had been introduced to them in 1916 a parvenue, gave her the nod of a dowager duchess while inspecting her through her lorgnon, and avowed with a significant gesture that no one in society knew whether the lady was even married. Time Regained
• As Modeste, dazzled by the magnificence of the great lords, entered and beheld this lesser Versailles, she suddenly remembered her approaching interview with the celebrated duchesses, and began to fear that she might seem awkward, or provincial, or parvenue; in fact, she lost her self-possession, and heartily repented having wished for a hunt. Modeste Mignon