Meanings of bourgeois gentilhomme in English

Je suis trop bourgeois to incur the ridicule of le bourgeois gentilhomme.

Leonie-shemarried a M. Surville, a silly bourgeois gentilhomme, who earned the hatred of Paris by taking her off the stage.

In the evening Ampère read to us the ' Bourgeois Gentilhomme.'

The " Bourgeois Gentilhomme" is a very amusing comedy throughout.

Now, behold the translation, which the dragoman, who no doubt had perused the Bourgeois Gentilhomme, delivered to the Queen.

Monsieur Jourdain, the honest but uneducated tradesman of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, whose sudden wealth lands him in absurd attempts at aristocracy.

The " Bourgeois Gentilhomme" ("Shopkeeper turned Gentleman") partakes of the nature of the farce quite as much as it does of the comedy.

The peal came from Looloo, who should have been reading "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" with a big dictionary instead of hanging over her father's shoulder.