boulevardier
noun
a person who frequents the most fashionable Parisian locales.
boulevardiers
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pluralof boulevardier.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Penetrating, with a wide, natural vibrato, it had an urgency of emotion that touched everyone, from the misbegotten of the meanest quartier to the most refined boulevardiers.
From Time Magazine Archive
And for a decade after Sedan, chatting with the boulevardiers in Paris, they would commonly tell me that they wished they had the empire back again.
From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
