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Examples
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Monsieur Hubert; for, as you know, Raymon had the art of winning affection, and soon the rich bourgeois's one desire was to call him his son-in-law.
Indiana 1900
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He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there.
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He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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The nineteenth-century flaneur's ennui has been transplanted to the twenty-first-century bourgeois's political apathy ” and made beautiful.
Two Paths for the Novel Smith, Zadie 2008
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