单词 | haut bourgeois |
释义 | haut bourgeoisn.adj. A. n. A member of the upper middle class as a social grouping; an upper-middle-class person. Also (with the and plural agreement): such people considered as a group; = high bourgeois n. and adj. (a) at high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. Cf. petit bourgeois n., petty bourgeois n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > middle class or bourgeoisie > person bourgeois1704 gigman1830 haut bourgeois1846 petit bourgeois1851 petty bourgeois1871 middle-classer1886 middle-middle1926 Middletowner1937 middle1955 bourgie1966 1846 Northern Star (Leeds) 30 May 5/4 Every paper [from Paris] gives daily proofs of the absolute control over all affairs of government which is exercised by the ‘haute bourgeois’ the large capitalists. 1917 E. K. Muspratt My Life & Work xix. 244 Everybody seemed to know everybody in Athens, and the Royal family met on almost equal terms with the haut-bourgeois. 1940 H. O. Storm Count Ten liv. 593 He could see the working people in the audience and the haute bourgeois and steer a line between them. 1974 G. H. Meaker Revolutionary Left in Spain, 1914–23 vi. 155 The extremism of the leftists placed Cambó once more in the eternal dilemma of the haut bourgeois—caught between the reaction of the Castilian centralizers..and the revolutionary impetuosity of the Catalan leftists. 2010 Times 24 Apr. (Nexis) (Features section) Sitting in one of its cubicles, you could be one of a party of Imperial Austrian haut-bourgeois come to spend the summer of 1906. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the upper-middle class; = high bourgeois n. and adj. (b) at high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. Cf. petit bourgeois adj., petty bourgeois adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > middle-class or bourgeois moyen1481 middling1631 bourgeois1761 small bourgeois1832 lower middle class1835 middle class1836 bourgeoisistic1848 petty bourgeois1864 upper middle class1872 petit bourgeois1887 lace curtain1928 haut bourgeois1940 bourgie1968 1940 J. Noel Footloose in Arcadia iv. 67 Joaquin Miller loved to regale Bierce's haute bourgeois English friends with details of the hardships the cynic endured before he became a cynic. 1953 W. F. Shepard Price Control & Reign of Terror ii. 17 They wanted no part of the haut bourgeois concepts of liberalism so dear to the Constituent Assembly. 1982 J. Manfredi Social Limits of Art vi. 85 The traditional images and function of art museums as sanctuaries, temples of haut bourgeois taste.., have been under fire for some time. 2013 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 Jan. 32 It's not quite an haut-bourgeois paradise, but it's near enough: its worries are comic misunderstandings not existential despair. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1846 |
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