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Bourgeois

adjective

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class.

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class. Synonyms: conservative, materialistic.

Belonging to the middle class.

noun

A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. Synonym: businessperson.

A member of the middle class. Synonym: burgher.

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... des vins, waiter! What champagne, Susy?" He chose, fastidiously, the best the cellar could produce, grumbling a little at the bourgeois character of the dishes. "Capital food of its kind, no doubt, but coarsish, don't you think? Well, I don't mind... it's rather a jolly change from the Luxe cooking. A new sensation—I'm all for new sensations, ...

— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton

... and fear. Their mutual loyalty, their sense of fair play, and their natural kindliness are all submerged under a tyranny of desperate apprehension. The social bond is unloosed, and the prudent bourgeois thinks only of the ...

— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly

... him, especially the fools among us: the wiser part add some of the love that belongs to the common kinship of humanity wherever it puts off the mask, the love of which we feel {53} something even for that gross old "bourgeois" Samuel Pepys, just because he laid out his whole secret self in black and white upon the paper. Moreover, Boswell's absurdities had their finer side. The dreamer of improbable disasters and impossible good fortunes is also the dreamer of high and perhaps unattainable ideals. Shall we count it ...

— Dr. Johnson and His Circle • John Bailey

... that Alexander Mackenzie made his famous journey. He had arrived in Canada in 1779. After five years spent in the counting-house of a trading company at Montreal, he had been assigned for a year to a post at Detroit, and in 1785 had been elevated to the dignity of a bourgeois or partner in the North-West Company. In this capacity Alexander Mackenzie was sent out to the Athabaska district to take control, in that vast and scarcely known region, of the posts of the traders now united into ...

— Adventurers of the Far North - A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas • Stephen Leacock

... Pere Bourgeois, one of the missionaries to China, attempted to preach a Chinese sermon to the Chinese. His own account of the business is ...

— Practical Education, Volume I • Maria Edgeworth

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