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jeunesse dorée

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Fashionable and wealthy young people.

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  • noun Young people who are dazzlingly rich, elegant, etc.; the youthful part of fashionable society.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : jeunesse, youth + dorée, gilded.]

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French jeunesse dorée (gilded youth)

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  • whichbe commented on the word jeunesse dorée

    'Gilded youth'; rich young people.

    May 15, 2008

  • jmjarmstrong commented on the word jeunesse dorée

    JM gets scared when the jeunesse dorée are also predominantly blondes

    February 16, 2009

  • MaryW commented on the word jeunesse dorée

    Stanford in those days had recently been for the country club set, the jeunesse dorée of California. (I could never understand in Double Indemnity how Phyllis Dietrichson's gross husband was an alumnus.)
    Charles Rowan Beye, My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), p. 139.
    <blockquote>At the time of the trip to Athens . . . only my two daughters and I were to go . . . . The younger went to school for her senior year at an American-style international institution in a posh suburb of Athens with the children of the diplomatic corps and the rest of the <i>jeunesse dorée d'Athènes</i>.</blockquote><i>Id.</i>, p. 207.

    March 6, 2016