bourgeoise
noun
a female member of the bourgeoisie.
bourgeoises
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pluralof bourgeoise.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"She told me you had, like all honest bourgeoises, your water-carrier, who furnished every day six buckets of water."
From Napoleon and Blucher by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
At a station where they stopped, however, three well-dressed ladies, wealthy bourgeoises of the town, who distributed cups of bouillon among the men, were received with great respect.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
I will go so far as to say no country can produce a bourgeoises dish which can be compared with steak and kidney pudding.
From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Mrs. W. G. Waters
Various degrees of progress could be read in the air and manner of the hearty young bourgeoises and their paler or even ruddier partners, as they crunched their bread or sipped their thin wine.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
Should you object to beginning with three petite bourgeoises, the Demoiselles Miret?
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
