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Significados de parvenu en inglés
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nou-ric Wealthy person whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who is therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.
Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position.
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Uso de parvenu en inglés
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In 1870 the American steel maker was the parvenu of the trade.
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The parvenu millionaire-thecotton lord-harborsthese ruffians by refusing to prosecute poachers.
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He had thrown his hardships at her like a parvenu his riches.
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There was nothing of the garishness of the parvenu in the capital's display.
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The room was richly furnished, but in the pretentious taste of a parvenu.
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The furniture is very costly, and reminds one of the parvenu.
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But then those parvenu opportunists of Iceland stole our story on Tuesday night.
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And when it came to blood, beside her I was parvenu.
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But they are parvenu people as compared with thought and action.
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I am a parvenu, my dear fellow, and I know it.
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The parvenu Emperor is the First Spear of God-that'swhat he calls himself.
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Crozat the parvenu-Marquisdu Chatel, forsooth, with his scissors and yardstick for device.
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How fatal to the parvenu, throughout history, has been this respect for shoebuckles.
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I am a parvenu's daughter, or a conqueror's daughter, it's all the same.
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Good old woman, and these poor banished Hogtons, thought I,-hatefulparvenu!
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What does it signify?-nodoubt some parvenu, but rich-soinfernally rich!
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