parvenus

But whether my never-ending quest for antique finials, faded bits of toile de Jouy, old postcards, and other quirky “flea-market finds” is a product of disposition or suggestion, I am, I realize, as much a slave to commodity fetishism as any McMansion-owning reader of Architectural Digest — hideous bible of parvenus from the Hamptons to Malibu.

Home Alone 2006

But whether my never-ending quest for antique finials, faded bits of toile de Jouy, old postcards, and other quirky “flea-market finds” is a product of disposition or suggestion, I am, I realize, as much a slave to commodity fetishism as any McMansion-owning reader of Architectural Digest — hideous bible of parvenus from the Hamptons to Malibu.

Home Alone 2006

In many circles there was an affectation of treating with contempt what are called the parvenus; those people who, to use M. de Talleyrand's expression, do not know how to walk upon a carpet.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

In many circles there was an affectation of treating with contempt what are called the parvenus; those people who, to use M. de Talleyrand's expression, do not know how to walk upon a carpet.

The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

In many circles there was an affectation of treating with contempt what are called the parvenus; those people who, to use M. de Talleyrand's expression, do not know how to walk upon a carpet.

Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

In many circles there was an affectation of treating with contempt what are called the parvenus; those people who, to use M. de Talleyrand's expression, do not know how to walk upon a carpet.

Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 06 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

The result is that much ill-feeling is engendered in society, and people whom these old aristocrats call the "_nouveaux riches_," "parvenus," etc., are always having their feelings hurt.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

For the parvenus, les nouveau riche, there are Jaguar XKE's from the '60's.

A Divine Gate-Crasher at the Antique Car Show Con Chapman 2011

Burst into these programs with your own 2 Minute Drill and correct the facts of these pandering parvenus like he does for Kornhieser and Wilbon.

Jeff DeGraff: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss Jeff DeGraff 2011

Burst into these programs with your own 2 Minute Drill and correct the facts of these pandering parvenus like he does for Kornhieser and Wilbon.

Jeff DeGraff: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss Jeff DeGraff 2011