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‖ parvenant|parvənɑ̃|
[F., pr. pple. of parvenir: see parvenu.]
A person who is acquiring a position, or on the way to being a parvenu.
1843tr. Custine's Empire of Czar III. 184 A specimen of the worst kind of emulation—that of the parvenant already giving himself the airs of the parvenu! |