parvenue

synonyms for parvenue

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It is at any rate happier than that of the parvenue, unless the mere fact of being arrivée confers any special enjoyment.

TOWN LIFE IN AUSTRALIAR. E. N. (RICHARD) TWOPENY

"Gentlemen have so much more liberty than we ladies have," says Mrs. Parvenue.

THE VERBALISTTHOMAS EMBLY OSMUN, (AKA ALFRED AYRES)

Cette nouvelle tant parvenue Hadjadj, il rpondit: 'Me voil.'

Do you acknowledge yourself a parvenue that you rejoice at the entrance of any one special person into your doors?

And yet there was about her always and under all circumstances, an indescribable flavor of the parvenue.

The comtesse is nothing but a common, ordinary parvenue originating no one knows where.

Though a flirt and a pretty woman, she was a discreet parvenue, who did not entrap the affections of noble husbands.

TANCREDBENJAMIN DISRAELI

The first generation makes the millions, the second generation is parvenue, the third is arrivée.

The girl showed great powers of duplicity, all the trickiness of a parvenue, to be quite frank.

CLARK'S FIELDROBERT HERRICK

It may safely be assumed that this was not done capriciously, as the modern parvenue makes for himself a heraldric device.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985