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parvenue
noun as in upstart
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Example Sentences
It is at any rate happier than that of the parvenue, unless the mere fact of being arrivée confers any special enjoyment.
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"Gentlemen have so much more liberty than we ladies have," says Mrs. Parvenue.
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Cette nouvelle tant parvenue Hadjadj, il rpondit: 'Me voil.'
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Do you acknowledge yourself a parvenue that you rejoice at the entrance of any one special person into your doors?
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And yet there was about her always and under all circumstances, an indescribable flavor of the parvenue.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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