rastacouère
rastacouère is the alternative form of rastaquouère.
Meaning of rastaquouère
Noun
rastaquouère (plural rastaquouères)
- A social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.
- Like the prodigal rastaquouères—those Latin American millionaires who flaunted their wealth in Paris in the hope of gaining entry into the beau monde—writers and intellectuals loved to put on cosmopolitan airs after visiting the French capital—they had left their Hispanic backwaters and could now...1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 304
Forms of rastacouère
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Questions about rastacouère
- What is rastacouère the alternative form of?
- Rastacouère is the alternative form of rastaquouère.
Words near rastacouère in the dictionary
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