单词 | petite bourgeoise |
释义 | petite bourgeoisen. A woman of the lower-middle classes of society. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > middle class or bourgeoisie > woman bourgeoise1772 petite bourgeoise1846 Mrs Dale1954 1846 Foreign Q. Rev. 37 473 You may descend from that rank..and become a petite bourgeoise. 1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xliii. 338 Should you object to beginning with three petite bourgeoises, the Demoiselles Miret? 1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 20 Mar. 290/2 She suddenly drops from an Egyptian warrior queen into a naughty English petite bourgeoise. 1975 A. Beevor Violent Brink iii. 56 She was a fraud; a petit [sic] bourgeoise in revolt..for emotional reasons. 2002 Brit. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. (Nexis) 32 435 She was a petite bourgeoise, a grocer's daughter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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