boulevardier
a person who frequents the most fashionable Parisian locales.
Origin of boulevardier
1Words Nearby boulevardier
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use boulevardier in a sentence
He “moves through the New York social scene with the charm and class of a boulevardier,” New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson once wrote.
Rod Gilbert, Hall of Fame hockey star called ‘Mr. Ranger,’ dies at 80 | Matt Schudel | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostA first-rank boulevardier in the 1960s tableau, his wives included one Rita Hayworth.
Inside North America’s First Islamic Art Museum | Shinan Govani | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGladwell the master boulevardier has in effect become his own outlier, a statistical anomaly too great to ignore.
He composed feuilletons that would have made the fortune of a boulevardier.
Edgar Saltus: The Man | Marie SaltusWith swift intelligence, she felt him to be no more a boulevardier than she was light.
To Win the Love He Sought | E. Phillips Oppenheim
He made a bow which was Chesterfieldian and incidentally made answer, rattling it off with the swiftness of a boulevardier.
Nothing But the Truth | Frederic S. IshamThe Parisian courtesan was at the zenith of her extraordinary celebrity when I became a rustic boulevardier.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2) | Henry WattersonHis walk betrayed the Parisian boulevardier, and the remnants of his clothing confirmed the opinion.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) | Alexandre Dumas pre
British Dictionary definitions for boulevardier
/ (buːlˈvɑːdɪˌeɪ) /
(originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse