boulevardier

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Borrowed from French boulevardier, from boulevard + -ier.

Not a trace of the boulevardier to be seen! — Monte-Cristo's Daughter, Edmund Flagg
She had a two months’ engagement first to fulfil in Paris, where Will read, with a little pang of regret, in the Figaro how she had turned the heads and captured the hearts (if any) of ten thousand boulevardiers. — Linnet: A Romance, Grant Allen
But the most irritating of girl—men is assuredly the Parisian and the boulevardier, in whom the appearance of intelligence is more marked and who combines in himself all the attractions and all the faults of those charming creatures in an exaggerated degree in virtue of his masculine temperament. — Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant

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