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Definition of Arrivistes
1. arriviste [n] - See also: arriviste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrivistes
Literary usage of Arrivistes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Russian Diplomat: The Suicide of Monarchies (William II by Evgeniǐ Nīkolaevīch Shelḱīng, L. W. Makovskī (1918)
"... CHAPTER VII THE arrivistes Russian Diplomats and the Foreign Policy of the
Russian Empire During the Reign of Nicholas II DURING the twenty years of his ..."
2. Polybiblion: Revue bibliographique universelle by Société bibliographique (France) (1903)
"L'auteur suppose qu'un de nos arrivistes les plus notoires a pris soin de consigner,
dans un écrit où il se raconte, les moyens par lesquels on arrive ..."
3. Rhythm, Music and Education by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1921)
"... by fanatics in opposing it, by arrivistes in making promises, by the same
worthies, after arrival, in forgetting them! Your 'necessary time' will extend ..."
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