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Parvenue
[pɑ:'vənju:]
Examples
The
English
men
of
fashion
in
Paris
courted
her
,
too
,
to
the
disgust
of
the
ladies
their
wives
,
who
could
not
bear
the
parvenue
.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
Vanity Fair
.
She
was
almost
a
parvenue
in
their
old
cultured
milieu
.
D. H. Lawrence.
Women in Love
.
Checker: Sondra