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- noun Plural form of
bourgie .
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Examples
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-- Cross section of full-lumen esophagoscope for the use of largest bourgies.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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So despite capitalism's emphasis on abstract equivalence, class is at least one area where the bourgies insist on qualities over quantities: "You can have my Horatio Alger narrative when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!"
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It made a certain sense - it's the proles and the bourgies, an unnatural union, and all you have to do is explain to one or the other that they are voting against their own self-interest and it should split along natural fissures.
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