petite bourgeoise
Americannoun
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petites bourgeoises
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of petite bourgeoise
1850–55; < French; feminine of petit bourgeois
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Ah! if only Sabine or Blanche Gerson occupied the position filled by this petite bourgeoise of Grenoble!
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
Their doubled tasks involve a greater drain on their physical energies than the petite bourgeoise suffers, especially in those districts devastated by the first German invasion—the valley of the Marne.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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