parvenue
US // (ˈpɑːvəˌnjuː) //
旁门左道,旁路,旁听席,旁听生
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n.名词 noun
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- : a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of or characteristic of a parvenue
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It is at any rate happier than that of the parvenue, unless the mere fact of being arrivée confers any special enjoyment.
"Gentlemen have so much more liberty than we ladies have," says Mrs. Parvenue.
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.
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