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  • noun Plural form of flaneur.

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Examples

  • But it also helps to be looking through the proper lens—to notice, for instance, that those would-be flaneurs outside trendy Bar del Fico Piazza del Fico, 26; www.bardelfico.it , their heads turning in unison every time a pretty girl walks by, are straight out of "I Vitelloni," the director's pivotal portrait of frustrated, provincial 20-something men.

    Finding Fellini Lee Marshall 2011

  • Some evenings will be devoted to three short half-hour performances, each costing $2.50, targeted at the flaneurs in flip-flops and club-hopping tourists who swarm Lincoln Road in the evening.

    In Miami, the shape of things to come Philip Kennicott 2011

  • This one-day taster includes a photography workshop, a symposium by the Walking Artists Network, and the chance to hit the streets as an elastic-bound group of slow-moving flaneurs.

    This week's new events 2011

  • For the flaneurs planning to take the tour, Gowalla, the travel-oriented app for smartphones, will help create a custom "Hypothetical Development Trip" for the project.

    J. Michael Welton: Urban Storytelling in New Orleans 2010

  • It is this impulse that convinces avid porn watchers that they are really erotic sociologists; that teaches peeping toms to fancy themselves flaneurs; and prompts liars to perceive that they are merely gifted enough to see the world as it should be.

    Caroline Hagood: What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010

  • "They're flaneurs," he said, using Baudelaire's derivative of the French word meaning "to stroll."

    J. Michael Welton: Urban Storytelling in New Orleans 2010

  • It is this impulse that convinces avid porn watchers that they are really erotic sociologists; that teaches peeping toms to fancy themselves flaneurs; and prompts liars to perceive that they are merely gifted enough to see the world as it should be.

    What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010

  • For the flaneurs planning to take the tour, Gowalla, the travel-oriented app for smartphones, will help create a custom "Hypothetical Development Trip" for the project.

    J. Michael Welton: Urban Storytelling in New Orleans 2010

  • For the flaneurs planning to take the tour, Gowalla, the travel-oriented app for smartphones, will help create a custom "Hypothetical Development Trip" for the project.

    J. Michael Welton: Urban Storytelling in New Orleans 2010

  • Hallucinating California is a collection of urban vignettes by two psychodelibilly flaneurs Wharf-Ratting around the 415 and the 916.

    TWO COLLABORATIONS by RICHARD LOPEZ & JONATHAN HAYES EILEEN 2009

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