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Meanings of petite bourgeoisie in English

Portuguese
respeitabilidade
Spanish
pequeña burguesía

Lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)

        respeitabilidade
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        Examples for "petit bourgeois"
        Examples for "petit bourgeois"
        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
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        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
        1
        The petty bourgeoisie was represented, but not the great capitalists.
        Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
        2
        "The petty bourgeoisie, in order to defeat the workers, soldiers and peasants, would combine with the devil himself!" he said once.
        Ten Days That Shook the World
        Usage of petite bourgeoisie in English
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        The first sequence is set in and around Paris, among the children of the petite bourgeoisie.
        The new yorker
        Translations for petite bourgeoisie