parvenu

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Old Mr. Parvenu gave a great ball— And of all his smart guests he knew no one at all.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine

The conductor raises his baton, The brass blares out Crass, crude, Parvenu, fat, powerful, Golden.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy

Parvenu, upstart—the term is replete with significance and health.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

Here the Parvenu had bought a home mellowed by the slow growth of years, touched into poetic beauty by the chastening fingers of time.

From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Notwithstanding this comparative oblivion, Le Paysan Parvenu is an almost astonishingly clever and original book, at least as far as the five of its eight parts, which are certainly Marivaux's, go.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George