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Definition of Petit bourgeois
1. Noun. A member of the lower middle class.
2. Noun. Lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petit Bourgeois
Literary usage of Petit bourgeois
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse by Alfred Kreymborg (1920)
"... A petit bourgeois Sharp nails grow out from your fat fingers; Over your
clean-shaven lip glimmers the moustache of a tom-cat. ..."
2. The Proletarian Revolution in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Leon Trotsky (1918)
"Yet, "they are made representatives of the ideas of the petit bourgeois by the
fact that their thoughts do not transcend the sphere in which their lives are ..."
3. French Composition: A Trip to Paris by Moritz Levi (1916)
"Le Dimanche d'un petit Bourgeois à Paris Le dimanche on peut voir presque tous
les bourgeois de Paris sur les boulevards, dans les Champs-Elysées, ..."
4. French Composition: A Trip to Paris by Moritz Levi (1916)
"Le Dimanche d'un petit Bourgeois à Paris Le dimanche on peut voir presque tous
les bourgeois de Paris sur les boulevards, dans les Champs-Elysées, ..."
5. Soviet Russia by Friends of Soviet Russia (1920)
"The petit bourgeois influence on the Russian Cooperative movement, in which the
Workers' ... This petit bourgeois influence was exerted by the Mensheviks, ..."
6. The Correspondence of Honoré de Balzac by Honoré de Balzac, Laure Surville (1878)
"If I had any luck, I should sell the right of illustrating ' Eugenie Grandet,'
the business of the ' petit bourgeois' would be arranged, and I should be out ..."
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