boulevardier
/ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdɪɹ/
boulevardier noun: a man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
Noun
boulevardier (plural boulevardiers)
- A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
- Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 20
- The 19th century was the age of the flaneur and the boulevardier, figures who made strolling down Fifth Avenue or Broadway, often vividly attired, a fashionable activity worthy of their counterparts in Paris or London.2007 August 19, Alex Marshall, “The Extreme Boulevardier”, in New York Times
- A cocktail similar to a negroni but made with bourbon instead of gin.
- The boulevardier is a fun drink. Similar to the negroni, the boulevardier features bourbon as the spirit instead of gin for the negroni. To be clear, they are different drinks but at the same time similar.[…]2018 September 1, Albert W. A. Schmid, How to Drink Like a Mobster: Prohibition-Style Cocktails, Indiana University Press, →ISBN
- Make no bones about it, if you were drinking a Boulevardier at Harry's in 1920, you were also drinking in a few hundred litres of smoke-filled air alongside it.[…]2018 December 6, Tristan Stephenson, The Curious Bartender Volume II: The New Testament of Cocktails, Ryland Peters & Small, →ISBN
Verb
boulevardier (third-person singular simple present boulevardiers, present participle boulevardiering, simple past and past participle boulevardiered)
- To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
- One spectacular being clothed liked a boulevardiering cavalier and having the mein of a finished chesterfieldian gentleman was noted seated in an oak near the cabin one day. ... It was a northern butcher-bird, the aggressive shrike ....1914, Robert Page Lincoln, "Wood Hollow Days", Chapter VI, Forest and Stream (83) (Dec 5, 1914) p. 739
- It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.1999 May 1, Bruce Dundore, “The Eagle Has Landed”, in Advertising Age
- Synonyms:
- flaunt, ostentate, swagger, aura farm, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away, flamboast
Examples of boulevardier in a sentence
- On the revival menu: boulevardiers, martinis, Manhattans, negronis, old fashioneds and more.2021 October 4, Patrick Evans-Hylton, Virginia Distilled: Four Centuries of Drinking in the Old Dominion, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page...
- For that quick romantic getaway, a weekend in the city of love, especially in spring or autumn, still delivers in terms of candlelit bistros, afternoons in cafés and boulevardiering in the Marais.2010, Chris Moss, 1000 Great Holiday Ideas (Time Out Books) p. 110
Synonyms of boulevardier
- flaunt
- ostentate
- swagger
- aura farm
- cut a wide swath
- exhibitionize
- flex
- floss
- fluff one's feathers
- gallery
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Forms of boulevardier
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | boulevardiers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | boulevardiers |
| present participle | boulevardiering |
| past participle | boulevardiered |
| past | boulevardiered |
Origin of boulevardier
Borrowed from French boulevardier, from boulevard + -ier.
Words that rhyme with boulevardier
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- spear
- career
- fear
- here
- steer
- appear
- cavalier
- cheer
- leer
- pioneer
- queer
- volunteer
- adhere
- beer
- chandelier
- deer
- financier
- pier
- premier
- privateer
- sheer
- veer
- vizier
- austere
- bombardier
- brigadier
- cashmere
- commandeer
- disappear
- endear
- grenadier
- interfere
- mere
- mountaineer
- peer
- sear
- tear
- tier
- unclear
- arrear
- bier
- blear
- cameleer
- cashier
- chiffonier
- cohere
- fakir
- farseer
Questions about boulevardier
- What does boulevardier mean?
- Boulevardier means a man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
- How do you use boulevardier in a sentence?
- On the revival menu: boulevardiers, martinis, Manhattans, negronis, old fashioneds and more.
- What part of speech is boulevardier?
- Boulevardier can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce boulevardier?
- Boulevardier is pronounced /ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdɪɹ/.
- What is the plural of boulevardier?
- The plural of boulevardier is boulevardiers.
Words near boulevardier in the dictionary
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