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embourgeoisement

[em-boo r-zhwahz-muh nt, -mahnt, ahm-; French ahn-boor-zhwaz-mahn]
noun
  1. the acquisition or adoption of middle-class values and manners.
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Origin of embourgeoisement

< French, equivalent to s’embourgeois(er) to become bourgeois (see em-1, bourgeois1) + -ment -ment
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British Dictionary definitions for embourgeoisement

embourgeoisement

noun
  1. the process of becoming middle-class; the assimilation into the middle class of traditionally working-class people
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Word Origin

from French, from en- 1 + bourgeois 1
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