fainéant

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The government of a native state by clerks and chuprassies, with a beautiful fainéant Political Agent for Sundays and Hindu festivals, is, I am told, a thing of the past.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

Solmes, the fainéant of Steinkirk, was left dead on the field.

From William the Third by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)

The lord no doubt was a fool, and filled the most foolish place in the world,—that of a silly fainéant earl.

From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony

Then Aunt Ju took her seat, and was able for the next hour and a half to occupy her arm-chair with gratifying fainéant dignity.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

And whereas Sieyès condemned his grand functionary to the repose of a roi fainéant, Bonaparte secured to him practically all the powers assigned by Sieyès to the Consuls for Peace and for War.

From The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) by Rose, John Holland