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Parvenue

noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    of or characteristic of a parvenu wordnet
  2. 2
    characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Female equivalent of parvenu. feminine, form-of

    "They have seen women of rank, and parvenues, chaste maidens and anonymas, in a confused and gaudy glare of barbarous splendour."

Etymology

Borrowed from French parvenue, feminine past participle of parvenir (“to arrive”), learned borrowing from Latin parvenire, from per- (“through”) + venire (“to come”).

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