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[boo
r-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. |
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
1815–25; perh. from a printer so named
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') n. pl. bourgeois
[French, from Old French burgeis, citizen of a town, from bourg, bourg; see bourg.] |
| Bour·geois (bŏŏr-zhwä') 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. |
| 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]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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