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bour⋅geois

1   [boor-zhwah, boor-zhwah; Fr. boor-zhwa]
noun, plural -geois, adjective
–noun
1. a member of the middle class.
2. a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
3. a shopkeeper or merchant.
–adjective
4. belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
5. conventional; middle-class.
6. dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns.
Origin:
1555–65; < MF; OF borgeis burgess
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bour⋅geois

2   [ber-jois]
–noun Printing.
a size of type approximately 9-point, between brevier and long primer.
Origin:
1815–25; perh. from a printer so named
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Bour⋅geois

   [boor-zhwah, boor-zhwah; Fr. boor-zhwa]
–noun
1. Lé⋅on Vic⋅tor Au⋅guste  [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] , 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel peace prize 1920.
2. Louise, born 1911, U.S. sculptor, born in France.
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bour·geois     (bŏŏr-zhwä', bŏŏr'zhwä')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. bourgeois
  1. A person belonging to the middle class.
  2. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
  3. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
  2. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.

[French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg; see bourg.]
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Bour·geois     (bŏŏr-zhwä')  Pronunciation Key 
French statesman who was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague (1903-1925) and helped draft the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919). He won the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Bourgeois, Louise Born 1911.  
French-born American sculptor whose often erotic sculptures are characterized by elongated figures and abstract shapes.
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bourgeois 
1564, "of the Fr. middle class," from Fr., from O.Fr. burgeis "town dweller" (as distinct from "peasant"), from borc "town, village," from Frank. *burg (see borough). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, "a capitalist" (1883). Bourgeoisie (n.) "middle class" is first recorded 1707.
"It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian." [Aldous Huxley, 1930]

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bourgeois

adjective
1. (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class 
2. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" 
3. belonging to the middle class 

noun
1. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson] 
2. a member of the middle class 

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Bourgeois

Bour*geois"\, n. [From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. Burgess.] (Print.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

Note: This line is printed in bourgeois type.

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Bourgeois

Bour*geois"\, n. [F., fr. bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess.] A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.] a. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

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