单词 | parvenant |
释义 | † parvenantn. Obsolete. A person who is acquiring a higher social position, or on the way to becoming a parvenu.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > one on the way to being a parvenu parvenant1843 1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine 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! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1843 |
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