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épater /eɪˈpateɪ / /epate/verb (in phrase épater les bourgeois) Shock people who have attitudes or views perceived as conventional or complacent: the artist was trying to épater les bourgeois again with ‘Altar’, made of bloodstained stretchers...- Whether this was born of a genuine revolutionary spirit or just to épater les bourgeois probably no longer matters.
- If his views are sincerely held, there sometimes seems to be an element of pour épater les bourgeois in his expression of them.
- Did her interest in photography owe as much to a real feeling for art or journalism as it did to an almost erotically charged desire, only too common among bored suburban teenagers, to épater les bourgeois?
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