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nostalgie de la boue

/ˌnoʊstɑlˈʒiː də lɑ ˈbuː/

nostalgie de la boue noun: a yearning for something base or vile.

Noun

nostalgie de la boue (uncountable)

  1. A yearning for something base or vile.
    • You’re one of those half-insane, perverted women who must run after depravity, the nostalgie de la boue.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 358
    • Politics, like Rock, Pop and Camp, has its uses; but to put one's whole status on the line for nostalgie de la boue in any of its forms would be unprincipled.1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine

Examples of nostalgie de la boue in a sentence

  • The extraordinary thing about this nostalgie de la boue is that it is undertaken with a humorous self-consciousness and without a tinge of religious abjection or mortification.2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10:
  • Smith [Shane Smith] called the appeal of the trailer-park aesthetic purveyed by Vice the latest twist on bohemia's old nostalgie de la boue.2003 September 28, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Origin of nostalgie de la boue

Borrowed from French nostalgie de la boue (literally “nostalgia for mud”).

Questions about nostalgie de la boue

What does nostalgie de la boue mean?
Nostalgie de la boue means a yearning for something base or vile.
How do you use nostalgie de la boue in a sentence?
The extraordinary thing about this nostalgie de la boue is that it is undertaken with a humorous self-consciousness and without a tinge of religious abjection or mortification.
What part of speech is nostalgie de la boue?
Nostalgie de la boue is a noun.
How do you pronounce nostalgie de la boue?
Nostalgie de la boue is pronounced /ˌnoʊstɑlˈʒiː də lɑ ˈbuː/.

Words near nostalgie de la boue in the dictionary

  1. nostalgiacs
  2. nostalgias
  3. nostalgic
  4. nostalgically
  5. nostalgics
  6. nostalgie de la boue
  7. nostalgies
  8. nostalgise
  9. nostalgised
  10. nostalgises
  11. nostalgising

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