jeunesse dorée
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of jeunesse dorée
Literally, “gilded youth”
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His Flatliners of 1990, with Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts, was another very potent example of Hollywood jeunesse dorée given a dark spin.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2020
If Piaf is a little out of fashion with today’s jeunesse dorée then you suspect that could all change at any moment with, say, a high-profile cover version or a new motion picture.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2015
Where are the undergrads in gay profusion Whose waistcoats made melodious the High, All the jeunesse dorée That shed the glamour of an elder day?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 by Various
Her charms were sufficient to deafen all but a few of the jeunesse dorée to the unsavory rumors still in circulation, notwithstanding the denial of their truth by the maiden and her associates.
From The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow by Robert Grant
The truth must be confessed that jeunesse dorée of the period affected a style somewhat "loud."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various
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