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单词 parvenant
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parvenantn.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parvenant.
Etymology: < French parvenant, present participle of parvenir (see parvenu n. and adj.). Compare earlier parvenu n. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (parvənaṅ) /parvənɑ̃/.
Obsolete.
A person who is acquiring a higher social position, or on the way to becoming a parvenu.Apparently an isolated use.
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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).
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