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‖ jeunesse dorée|ʒœnɛs dɔre|
[Fr., lit. = gilded youth.]
Orig. applied in France to the group of fashionable counter-revolutionaries formed after the fall of Robespierre; now gen., young people of wealth and fashion.
1830W. Hazlitt Life Napoleon Buonaparte I. viii. 383 The volatile genius of this people [sc. the French]..decked out the youth of the city [sc. Paris] (La Jeunesse Dorée) in the Chouan uniform. 1836Edin. Rev. LXIII. 460 The indefatigable opponents of the ancient rudeness, the jeunesse dorée of Germany. 1837[see gilt ppl. a. 2]. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XIII. 374/1 These young men, who were commonly known as the ‘Jeunesse dorée’, no longer permitted the Jacobins to hold assemblies in the public places. Ibid., The Jeunesse dorée and the Thermidorians had on their side the tradesmen. 1886Athenæum 11 Sept. 329/2 We shall not envy the jeunesse dorée of the period these so-called sports. 1888N. & Q. 7th Ser. V. 190/1 Jeunesse dorée answers, perhaps, rather to Disraeli's expression of ‘curled darlings’ than to ‘dandy’. 1910D. Schwann Bk. Bachelor 47 Mason..received the guests, who were the fine flower of dramatic and critical Bohemia, with a sprinkling of the jeunesse dorée of Society and high finance. 1939N. Monsarrat This is Schoolroom i. i. 28 One of the favourite children, the jeunesse dorée. 1965New Statesman 9 Apr. 568/2 The jeunesse dorée would have to go out and work for their living. 1969J. Mander Static Soc. v. 134 Those Country Clubs where the jeunesse dorée of Lima, Caracas and Bogota cavort. 1974D. Smith Look back with Love x. 90 The love-life of the Old Trafford jeunesse dorée. |