flâneurs
- plural of flâneur.
Example Sentences
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We have watched a restless day of rest in the park of the title, where an assortment of flâneurs and poseurs have become steadily more fractious and discordant.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017
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
The 21st century flâneurs at the center of these novels are dislocated and wayward.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
People who inhabit through motion include desert-dwellers, obliged to move with herds in search of feeding grounds and markets, and 19th-century flâneurs, gentleman strollers in search of fascination.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012
She had looked out of place in the artificial atmosphere of the boulevards, among the gas-lit cafés, dazzling shop-windows, flâneurs and gaily dressed women.
From The Hippodrome by Hayward, Rachel
