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"Nostalgie de la boue" means ascribing higher spiritual values to people and cultures considered "lower" than oneself, the romanticization of the faraway primitive which is also the equivalent of the lower class close to home ....

Avatar--An Addendum 2010

But allow for all the gush and nostalgie de la boue and a becoming unwillingness to speak ill so soon and Taylor's dazzled obituaries still tell a different story.

The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett 2011

Many guests, not knowing that the ground beneath them would be concrete, worried that a fleuve de boue (river of mud) would force them to be embourbé (mired) in mud, proving that everything really does sound better in French.

Secret to a Picnic: Make It Big and White Lizzie Simon 2011

Quand l'eau monte à ce niveau avec des infrastructures comme les nôtres, il faudrait imaginer le pire!!!! je m'imagine dans ma voiture dans cette situation, à moitié dans la boue

Global Voices in English » Tunisia: Severe Flooding Kills 15 2009

"Nostalgie de la boue" means ascribing higher spiritual values to people and cultures considered "lower" than oneself, the romanticization of the faraway primitive which is also the equivalent of the lower class close to home ....

Archive 2010-02-01 2010

Quand les bushman d'Afrique du Sud rentrent au bercail, ils s'enduisent la langue de boue pour exprimer leur attachement à leur sol.

bercail - French Word-A-Day 2007

Quand les bushman d'Afrique du Sud rentrent au bercail, ils s'enduisent la langue de boue pour exprimer leur attachement à leur sol.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Quand les bushman d'Afrique du Sud rentrent au bercail, ils s'enduisent la langue de boue pour exprimer leur attachement à leur sol.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Why don't you class yourself up a bit, or is it nostalgie de la boue?

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

See “Le grand lexique du patois charentais,” Xaintonge hors serie 1 2003 48, s.v. “broue: boue”; and Alain Rey et al., Le Grand Robert de la langue française, nouvelle édition augmentée, 6 vols.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008