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boulevardier

/bool-uh-vahr-deer, boo-luh-; French booluh-var-dyey/US // ˌbʊl ə vɑrˈdɪər, ˌbu lə-; French bulə varˈdyeɪ //UK // (buːlˈvɑːdɪˌeɪ) //

抬头人,卧底,飞行员

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bou·le·var·diers [bool-uh-vahr-deerz, boo-luh-; French booluh-var-dyey]. /ˌbʊl ə vɑrˈdɪərz, ˌbu lə-; French bulə varˈdyeɪ/.

    • : a person who frequents the most fashionable Parisian locales.
    • : bon vivant.

Examples

  • He “moves through the New York social scene with the charm and class of a boulevardier,” New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson once wrote.

  • A first-rank boulevardier in the 1960s tableau, his wives included one Rita Hayworth.

  • Gladwell the master boulevardier has in effect become his own outlier, a statistical anomaly too great to ignore.

  • He composed feuilletons that would have made the fortune of a boulevardier.

  • With swift intelligence, she felt him to be no more a boulevardier than she was light.

  • He made a bow which was Chesterfieldian and incidentally made answer, rattling it off with the swiftness of a boulevardier.

  • The Parisian courtesan was at the zenith of her extraordinary celebrity when I became a rustic boulevardier.

  • His walk betrayed the Parisian boulevardier, and the remnants of his clothing confirmed the opinion.