Definition of Arriviste. Meaning of Arriviste. Synonyms of Arriviste

- A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past participle...
- Sauvignon grapes. Blackbird Vineyard also makes rosé wine called Arriviste. Arriviste is a blend of Blackbird's three signature grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon...
- 1920s, he was against fascism, calling Oswald Mosley "a bounder and an arriviste". By 1935, he was calling Mussolini a deranged and dangerous egomaniac...
- and its new Liudolfing king, Henry the Fowler, was seen by many as an arriviste. He needed a royal marriage for his son to establish his legitimacy, but...
- to refer to someone as a Rastignac is to call him or her an ambitious arriviste or social climber. The following list is organized with, first, the date...
- those living a garish lifestyle with their newfound wealth; see also arriviste and parvenu. nouvelle vague lit. "new wave." Used for stating a new way...
- Viscount Iveagh, fought at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Members of the arriviste Guinness family, wishing for more impressive origins, have long claimed...
- "show restaurants known as lobster palaces," favored by nouveau riche "arrivistes". This became unfashionable by the 1920s and only regained po****rity...
- paradox is famously used to foreshadow the character development of the arriviste Eugène de Rastignac in Balzac's novel Père Goriot. Rastignac asks Bianchon...
- few friends. He wrote to a friend that Buenos Aires was now "overrun by arrivistes, by correct youths lacking any mental equipment, and decorative young...