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boulevardiers

boulevardiers is the plural of boulevardier.

Meaning of boulevardier

Noun

boulevardier (plural boulevardiers)

  1. 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
  2. (capitalized, often) 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

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Questions about boulevardiers

What is boulevardiers the plural of?
Boulevardiers is the plural of boulevardier.

Words near boulevardiers in the dictionary

  1. boulevarde
  2. boulevardes
  3. boulevardier
  4. boulevardiered
  5. boulevardiering
  6. boulevardiers
  7. boulevardize
  8. boulevardized
  9. boulevardizes
  10. boulevardizing
  11. boulevardlike

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