rastaquouère
rastaquouère noun: a social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.
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
- That is, willing to drop the surveillance and shelve the files of all his other current assignments, to concentrate on this band of rastaquouères who had blown so problematically into town.2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 640
Forms of rastaquouère
| plural | rastaquouères |
|---|---|
| alternative form | rastacouère |
Origin of rastaquouère
Borrowed from French rastaquouère, from South American Spanish rastacuero.
Questions about rastaquouère
- What does rastaquouère mean?
- Rastaquouère means a social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.
- What part of speech is rastaquouère?
- Rastaquouère is a noun.
- What is the plural of rastaquouère?
- The plural of rastaquouère is rastaquouères.
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