boulevardier
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of boulevardier
From French, dating back to 1875–80; see origin at boulevard, -ier 2
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A wealthy art dealer and storied boulevardier, Felix knows the name of every maitre d’ in Manhattan, reflexively flirts with every waitress and coyly encourages Laura’s worst fears.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2020
"The moon’s souvenir / the boulevardier / a ballerina on the promenade," he wrote on Instagram.
From Fox News ● Oct. 8, 2019
Trump used more hand gestures than an Italian boulevardier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2017
And as you read it, you feel like a boulevardier in present-day Paris, sitting at a cafe and leafing through a magazine chock-full of revelations.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2016
An insatiable appetite for new novels makes it as hard to read a masterpiece as it seems to a Parisian boulevardier to live in a quiet country.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
But these are 21st-century New Yorkers, more technocrats than boulevardiers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2021
An elaborate cast of colorful characters keeps showing up out of nowhere, just as artists, writers, boulevardiers and other colorful visitors paraded through the Stein household in Paris.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2018
Aznavour began his career peddling his words and music to the Paris boulevardiers of the 40s and 50s - Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier and Charles Trenet.
From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2017
Despite the fatal number of 13 Ministers, the boulevardiers, with the flair for the succinct, called the Cabinet shift "a Voronoff cure" in which Loucheur is the principal monkey gland.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men are members of the Jockey Club, art students, medical students, clerks, and boulevardiers.
From With the Allies by Richard Harding Davis
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