Definition of Parvenues. Meaning of Parvenues. Synonyms of Parvenues

- A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past...
- The Parvenus (Slovene: Jara gospoda) is a 1953 Yugoslav historical drama film directed by Bojan Stupica and starring Vladimir Skrbinsek, Elvira Kralj and...
- Parvenu Point (67°34′S 67°17′W / 67.567°S 67.283°W / -67.567; -67.283) is a low but prominent point forming the north extremity of Pourquoi Pas Island...
- Trimalchio—an allusion to the Latin work Satyricon—the plot followed the rise of a parvenu who s****s wealth to win the woman he loves. For source material, Fitzgerald...
- Mademoiselle de Terville by Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux, Le Philosophe parvenu ou Lettres et pièces originales contenant les aventures d'Eugène Sans-Pair...
- Turkish Literature in the Faculty of Literature of the University of Istanbul ne oldum delisi "what-have-I-become!" madman = parvenu who gives himself airs...
- noblesse d'épée, increasingly resented the influence and pretensions of this parvenu nobility. In the last years of the ancien régime the old nobility pushed...
- romantic comedies. After their heyday, bachelor pads were more bohemian than parvenu bourgeoise, with old food and dirty dishes and clothing being strewn about...
- and they will fulfill our wishes. Because the House of Pahlavi were a parvenu house – as Reza Khan had begun his career as a private in the Persian Army...
- two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu. Marivaux's father was a Norman financier whose name from birth was Carlet...