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‖ flâneur|flɑnœr|
[F. flâneur, f. flâner: see prec.]
A lounger or saunterer, an idle ‘man about town’. Also transf. Hence flane, flâne, flané, flâné v. intr., to saunter, to laze.
1854Harper's Mag. Aug. 411/2 Did you ever fail to waste at least two hours of every sunshiny day, in the long-ago time when you played the flaneur, in the metropolitan city, with looking at shop-windows? 1872E. Braddon Life in India vi. 236 He will affect a knowledge of London life that only comes to the regular flâneur after years of active experience. 1876Ouida Winter City vi. 149 An existence which makes the life of the Paris flâneurs look very poor indeed. 1876L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) xi. 143 Shopped the whole morning—flanéed down Regent Street. 1894G. du Maurier Trilby III. viii. 155 They are going to laze and flane about the boulevards. 1896G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) II. 217 The boundary which separates the clever flâneur from the dramatist. 1897G. du Maurier Martian iv. 175 To his great surprise he saw Bonzig leisurely flâning about. 1938H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores i. 13 In Paris, in London I have been a happy flâneur; I have flâné-d in New York and Washington and most of the great cities of Europe. 1954I. Murdoch Under Net xv. 203 The fishermen were fishing, and the flâneurs were flaning. 1969Computers & Humanities IV. 29 The electronic age may yet see every man a flaneur. |