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Meanings of petit bourgeois in English

Portuguese
respeitabilidade
Spanish
pequeña burguesía

Lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)

respeitabilidade
Usage of petit bourgeois in English
1
Hitler is portrayed as spiessig, a very German word that translates as narrow-minded or petit bourgeois.
The Guardian
2
She's a model of petit bourgeois propriety.
The new yorker
3
If there is one memory universally adored and respected throughout France, it is that of the " petit bourgeois."
Holidays in Eastern France
4
To think that you, a watchmaker and a petit bourgeois, should experience what many a saint has died without realizing!
Read-Aloud Plays
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Suddenly, at the angle of a street, his coachman was stopped- arough -lookingman appeared at the door--"Descends,monpetit bourgeois-."
The Parisians — Volume 08
6
He thought that history had made of the Jew a petit bourgeois and a rootless creature; money had taken the place of ties & roots.
The new yorker
7
Fortunately the " petit bourgeois" gained his point, and the preservation of Belfort to France was the one drop of comfort in that sea of misery.
Holidays in Eastern France
Translations for petit bourgeois