parvenue
Example Sentences
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Even her underpants, she found — the kind of white cotton briefs her aunt and grandmother wore — marked her as a parvenue.
From New York Times
On the other, Kim got away lightly in the parvenue stakes.
From The Guardian
He could see Olive's face flush under the selfish rudeness of the parvenue, but the girl, repressing her impulse to reply heatedly, remained silent.
From Project Gutenberg
Incessantly occupied with the ambition to appear a true aristocrat, in whom one could not perceive the parvenue, she had no room for other thoughts.
From Project Gutenberg
The first generation makes the millions, the second generation is parvenue, the third is arrivée.
From Project Gutenberg
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