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It's safe to say that Obama, CC '83 and communist-consorting, drug-quaffing elite flaneur, will receive a more enthusiastic reception than McCain, who was heckled during his Class Day speech in 2006, unless friends of his daughter Meghan (CC' 07) turn out in force. — IvyGate
Perambulating most literally means to walk through, and Scene art critic and local art advocate David Maddox uses his blog to do just that-to meander through the city's art offerings like a well-heeled flaneur. — NashvilleScene.com
(I've just taken the asterisk away from flaneur, as it is not a repelling, just a re-accenting, so to speak.) — Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
An excellent dancer, clever at 'vers de société', an agreeable singer, a talented artist, a judge of china, buhl, and other objects of 'virtù', a collector of snuff-boxes, a connoisseur in canes, he had gifts which might have raised him above the Bond Street 'flaneur', or the idler at Watier's Club. — The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
The word "flaneur" is italicized because it is not English, but possibly also for emphasis if the sentence had read "The Major is a fool_", with the word "fool" italicized, it would clearly be emphasis. — The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002