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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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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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