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Definition of Parvenus
1. parvenu [n] - See also: parvenu
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parvenus
Literary usage of Parvenus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1881)
"Financiers and parvenus.—Ambassadors, ministers, governors, general officers.—VII.
Prelates, seigniors and minor provincial nobles. ..."
2. Considérations Sur la France by Joseph Marie Maistre (1797)
"... il) des hom- « mes étrangers à nos mœurs , à nos usages , « seraient parvenus
à établir de* fêtes ridi- « cules pour des ..."
3. Jonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American Society by Max O'Rell, Jack Allyn (1889)
"parvenus and Arrives. —Literary and Artistic Society.—Provincialism.—All the
Americans have two Family Names.—Colonels and Judges. —American Hospitality. ..."
4. Social Customs by Florence Howe Hall (1887)
"PRIDE AND parvenus. IP one circle of society is really better than and superior
to another, why is it not a laudable ambition for a man or woman to wish to ..."
5. The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton by Sir Egerton Brydges (1834)
"... and parvenus — Male stock of existing peers—Self-reliance — The author crossed
at every step — His great loss in the death of Lord Tenterden. ..."
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