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Definition of Flaneurs
1. flaneur [n] - See also: flaneur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaneurs
Literary usage of Flaneurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"Pray, sir or madam, are there no flaneurs in the streets who do likewise?
flaneurs who have no lucid intervals of labour, but who languidly saunter through ..."
2. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1891)
"flaneurs and outsiders were not permitted to introduce themselves into the roll
of membership; there were no entertainments, or distractions, or dinners; ..."
3. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"Another shift in the profile of artistic neo-flaneurs is indicated by the fact
that in recent analyses references to urban defense mechanisms are frequently ..."
4. A residence in France, with an excursion up the Rhine and a second visit to by James Fenimore Cooper (1836)
"Like true flaneurs, we had not decided where to sleep, and, unlike flaneurs, we
now began to look wistfully towards the other side of the Rhine into the ..."
5. Sketches of Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper (1836)
"Like true flaneurs, we had not decided where to sleep, and, unlike flaneurs, we
now began to look wistfully towards the other side of the Rhine, ..."
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