as in poor
belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.
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Recent Examples of bourgeois
The app, created in 2013, emerged with a rather bourgeois focus.
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Jianqing Chen, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2025
Look at picture No. 107 in the exhibition of 1874: another of Morisot’s lugubrious bourgeois bachelorettes.
—The Learning Network, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
It was screened in places like Picturehouse that are squarely pitched to bourgeois film consumption.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
His cooking was a bridge between an idea of the past, which came from royalty and then became bourgeois cuisine, and modernity.
—The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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Jianqing Chen, The Conversation, 19 Jan. 2025
Look at picture No. 107 in the exhibition of 1874: another of Morisot’s lugubrious bourgeois bachelorettes.
—The Learning Network, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
It was screened in places like Picturehouse that are squarely pitched to bourgeois film consumption.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
His cooking was a bridge between an idea of the past, which came from royalty and then became bourgeois cuisine, and modernity.
—The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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