boulevardier

• “My Merriam-Webster 11th Edition, the standard medium-size 'Merkin dictionary, has "boulevardier" as showing up in 1871 as "a frequenter of the Parisian boulevards, broadly: MAN-ABOUT-TOWN".”

  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

• “That focus led one critic to sneer that the dramatist "followed mid-century middle-class man into middle age using the middle-class conventions of the boulevardier to do it".”

  The Guardian: In praise of... Simon Gray

• “Reading "Gossip" is like watching Norman Mailer begin one of those sentences whose ending is not yet known to the author, the difference being that Mailer liked to pose as a Nietzschean Ubermensch taking leaps into existential voids while Mr. Epstein is a rambling boulevardier who just isn't sure yet where he'll eat lunch.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Boulevardier's Delight

• “If Menotti looks like the sort of care-worn, silk-shirted boulevardier you might stumble across singing a mournful version of For the Good Times in a Stockholm cabaret, Bilardo is the psychotic sea captain who'd jump on stage, slit his throat and fashion a necklace out of his vertebrae.”

  The Guardian: Dressingroomistas v Structuralists: football's perennial problem

• “It's a wonder that the authors didn't frame the story as a biography of Casper Holstein innovator, racketeer, proud black man, stylish boulevardier and even philanthropist.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Gambling Days In Harlem

• “Gorodetsky is cast as a boulevardier, sitting at a little table having a coffee.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Festooned With Fantasy

• “The boulevardier aspects of the relationship hardly need elaboration, and indicate the commonalities between the two men beneath their differing aesthetic and political tastes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Empire of Dreams

• “Her boulevardier wardrobe, her trademark cigarette/sneer, her unruly Beethoven bob: She has precisely distilled, or perhaps invented, our idea of what a "sardonic New York literary curmudgeon" should look like and has stuck to it faithfully for decades.”

  The Huffington Post: Fran Lebowitz: New Documentary On The Writer Who Doesn't Write

• “Now, with the trusty Gillis at his side, he would try on the role of San Francisco boulevardier, dipping into the rarefied waters of West Coast bohemia, which his brief exposure a few months earlier to Artemus Ward, Adah Isaacs Menken, Ada Clare, and other seasoned culture warriors had encouraged him to sample.”

  Simon & Schuster: LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY

• “He was the young boulevardier I'd seen on Strasbourg station ... hut what the hell was he doing here, and what was the matter with my legs '?”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

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