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单词 high bourgeois
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high bourgeois
high bourgeois n. and adj. [after French haut bourgeois haut bourgeois n. or haute bourgeoisie haute bourgeoisie n.] (a) n. (with the and plural agreement) the French upper middle class; (later also) the upper middle class of other countries (now historical and rare); (b) adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of the French upper middle class or (later) the upper middle class of other countries.
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1836 L. Ritchie Magician I. i. 20 The hoods of black or red cloth worn by the high bourgeois did not appear to his judgment to be far inferior in richness to the silk and velvet of the nobility.
1874 Daily News 16 July 5/5 The attendance of..the high bourgeois society of Montreuil in Sunday clothes, and an artistic use of flags, gave colour and loveliness to the ceremonial.
1907 A. Cohn in J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (new ed.) Introd. p. xv Like many of the high bourgeois of France, Pierre Eyquem had energetically striven to shift the basis of the family's greatness.
1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 31 I cannot think of a single modern high-bourgeois home, in which mahogany plays more than a casual and inconspicuous part.
1971 M. Walker German Home Towns v. 160 Special marriage provisions and other devices opened the channels between the exempted high bourgeois and the nobility.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Dec. 44 He [sc. Harold Pinter] pursued the theme in Party Time, showing an affluent, smugly insular high-bourgeois world indifferent to the erosion of civil liberties.
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