• A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past...
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  • The Parvenus (Slovene: Jara gospoda) is a 1953 Yugoslav historical drama film directed by Bojan Stupica and starring Vladimir Skrbinsek, Elvira Kralj and...
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  • Parvenu Point (67°34′S 67°17′W / 67.567°S 67.283°W / -67.567; -67.283) is a low but prominent point forming the north extremity of Pourquoi Pas Island...
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    Kotkin observed that Stalin "generally gravitated to people like himself: parvenu intelligentsia of humble background". He gave nicknames to his favourites...
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    Le Paysan parvenu is an unfinished novel by Pierre de Marivaux. Five parts by Marivaux appeared from May 1734 to April 1735, and an ending was added by...
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  • Derbyshire. Directed by Steve Stevenson, produced by Mike Wallington, made by Parvenu Productions 3 October Family Fortunes, about how children's mental development...
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  • religious tolerance over pure economic self-interest". Often referred to as parvenu, members of the nouveau riche are often discriminated against by the old-money...
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    Mademoiselle de Terville by dame de. Madeleine d'Arsant Puisieux, Le Philosophe parvenu ou Lettres et pièces originales contenant les aventures d'Eugène Sans-Pair...
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    and they will fulfill our wishes. Because the House of Pahlavi were a parvenu house as Reza Khan had begun his career as a private in the Persian Army...
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    Turkish Literature in the Faculty of Literature of the University of Istanbul ne oldum delisi "what-have-I-become!" madman = parvenu who gives himself airs...
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    noblesse d'épée, increasingly resented the influence and pretensions of this parvenu nobility. In the last years of the ancien régime the old nobility pushed...
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    society Class traitor Classicide Classless society Euthenics Nouveau riche / Parvenu Poverty Ranked society Snobbery Social cleansing Social exclusion Social...
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    society Class traitor Classicide Classless society Euthenics Nouveau riche / Parvenu Poverty Ranked society Snobbery Social cleansing Social exclusion Social...
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    rule seemed to have been eliminated) among others, he sought to promote "parvenus" who were beholden to himself (often either functionaries who had risen...
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    and introduced her treatment of the Jewish diaspora as either pariah or parvenu. In addition it represents an early version of her concept of history....
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    Miniseries or a Movie 1999 Jesus Mary Television movie 1999 Hey Arnold! Madame Parvenu (voice) Episode: "Polishing Rhonda" 2000 Britannic Lady Lewis Television...
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    her voluntary system—our Tories hate her democrats—our Whigs hate her parvenus—our Radicals hate her litigiousness, her insolence, and her ambition. All...
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    Trimalchio—an allusion to the Latin work Satyricon—the plot followed the rise of a parvenu who seeks wealth to win the woman he loves. For source material, Fitzgerald...
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    l'évocation d'al-Idrisi est néanmoins la plus étoffée de celles qui nous sont parvenues des auteurs «médiévaux» de langue arabe. Aucun écrivain contemporain d'al-Idrisi...
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    two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu. His father was a Norman financier whose name from birth was Carlet, but...
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    the princess, and a Shia royal, the crown prince. The Pahlavis were a parvenu house as Reza Khan, the son of a peasant who entered the Iranian Army as...
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  • Gyu-young, Kwon Yul, Hwang Hee, and Yeonwoo. It is about the romance between a parvenu who lacks education, and the daughter of a prestigious family who tries...
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    2012-02-09. Retrieved 2010-04-25. Becker, Peter von (2005-01-20). "Der Parvenü verlässt uns nie". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-29....
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    Trimalchio (see the Satyricon) could be shown as a characteristic of the parvenu, who bores his guests with an unfashionable display of dying fish. In medieval...
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  • a garish lifestyle with their newfound wealth; see also arriviste and parvenu. nouvelle vague lit. "new wave." Used for stating a new way or a new trend...
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    defend their spiritual progenitor against aspersions cast by an American parvenu." "1912 Harry Houdini 'Water Torture Cell' Presentation Piece from Circus...
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  • Chungkang College of Cultural Industries The Time Botanist Glenn Paul-Parvenu France Institut Sainte-Geneviève To the Brink Hugo Docking United Kingdom...
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    pot-pourri, ménage, enfant gâté, enfant terrible, garçonnière, patati-patata, parvenu, détraqué, enquête, equipe, malha, fila, burocracia, birô, affair, grife...
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  • indulgent gentry father. BAFTA-nominated Alison Steadman was cast to play the parvenu Mrs Bennet, Elizabeth's mortifyingly affected social-climbing mother. Steadman...
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    little resemblance between Redford's suave portrayal and the ambitious parvenu in the novel. In more recent decades, Leonardo DiCaprio played the role...
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