flânerie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flânerie
First recorded in 1870–75; from French, from Norman French dialect, from Norman French flanner ( French flâner ) “to waste time, walk about aimlessly” + -erie; see -ery ( def. )
Example Sentences
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There is something of flânerie in Relph’s methods, or what he and Payne have called “power-dossing,” a tweak on the British slang for avoiding work by wandering around.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021
Hemingway’s third wife, Elkin writes, “turned flânerie into testimony,” but she “pinged between extremes” of free-range activity and domesticity, often painfully.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2017
Mere flânerie would not have gotten him there.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2015
Another room projects famous Paris scenes or flânerie in films: Jean Seberg walking with Jean-Paul Belmondo in “Breathless,” Audrey Tautou lingering at the Canal Saint-Martin in “Amélie.”
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2015
In his latest and not least fascinating flânerie he gives the experiences of several holiday tours in Germanized France.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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