flâneur
noun
a person who lounges or strolls around in a seemingly aimless way; an idler or loafer.
flâneurs
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pluralof flâneur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Like a moth to a nontoxic flame, the store drew Instagram flâneurs in droves — but also plenty of grimaces and eye rolls from locals.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
He’s a walker in the city in conscious league with Walt Whitman, but also with writers up through Teju Cole, whose protagonists are wide-awake flâneurs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2014
It is perhaps not surprising that Sebald’s characters — most of whom are travelers or flâneurs of one kind or another — write as if steeped in melancholy.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
It’s not surprising that these 21st-century flâneurs are different creatures from their 19th-century predecessors.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
Here was a man who could have enjoyed art among the artists, who could have been the wittiest of all the flâneurs; who could have made epigrams like diamonds and drunk music like wine.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
