Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sophisticated, socially active man who frequents fashionable places.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who frequents a boulevard, especially in Paris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man who frequents the
boulevards ; thus, aman about town orbon vivant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My Merriam-Webster 11th Edition, the standard medium-size 'Merkin dictionary, has "boulevardier" as showing up in 1871 as "a frequenter of the Parisian boulevards, broadly: MAN-ABOUT-TOWN".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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That focus led one critic to sneer that the dramatist "followed mid-century middle-class man into middle age using the middle-class conventions of the boulevardier to do it".
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Reading "Gossip" is like watching Norman Mailer begin one of those sentences whose ending is not yet known to the author, the difference being that Mailer liked to pose as a Nietzschean Ubermensch taking leaps into existential voids while Mr. Epstein is a rambling boulevardier who just isn't sure yet where he'll eat lunch.
Boulevardier's Delight Henry Allen 2011
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If Menotti looks like the sort of care-worn, silk-shirted boulevardier you might stumble across singing a mournful version of For the Good Times in a Stockholm cabaret, Bilardo is the psychotic sea captain who'd jump on stage, slit his throat and fashion a necklace out of his vertebrae.
Dressingroomistas v Structuralists: football's perennial problem 2011
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That focus led one critic to sneer that the dramatist "followed mid-century middle-class man into middle age using the middle-class conventions of the boulevardier to do it".
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Gorodetsky is cast as a boulevardier, sitting at a little table having a coffee.
Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010
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Gorodetsky is cast as a boulevardier, sitting at a little table having a coffee.
Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010
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Gorodetsky is cast as a boulevardier, sitting at a little table having a coffee.
Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010
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It's a wonder that the authors didn't frame the story as a biography of Casper Holstein innovator, racketeer, proud black man, stylish boulevardier and even philanthropist.
Gambling Days In Harlem Michael J. Agovino 2010
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Gorodetsky is cast as a boulevardier, sitting at a little table having a coffee.
Festooned With Fantasy John Pancake 2010
seanahan commented on the word boulevardier
The dictionary definitions seem to disagree with WordNet. They seem to have a connotation of someone who goes around town partying, as opposed to just visiting.
October 9, 2009
bilby commented on the word boulevardier
Which would you rather do?
October 10, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word boulevardier
"It is one thing to call someone a neat and careful dresser. It is another to call that person a dandy, or a clotheshorse, or a boulevardier. Each of these terms has slightly different meanings and conjures up a type."
--New York Times A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored by Charles Zanor, November 29, 2010
December 1, 2010
stuartmathergibson commented on the word boulevardier
boulevardier
A sophisticated, socially active man who frequents fashionable places.
February 23, 2022