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Definition of Parvenus

Parvenu
Parvenu Par"ve*nu`, n. [F., prop. p. p. of parvenir to attain to, to succeed, to rise to high station, L. pervenire to come to; per through + venire to come. See Par, prep., and Come.] An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

Meaning of Parvenus from wikipedia

- rangent aux parvenus" translated "the sovereign put themselves before the parvenu". In Miss Potter, Beatrix Potter refers to her parents as "Parvenus...social...
- The Parvenus (Slovene: Jara gospoda) is a 1953 Yugoslav historical drama film directed by Bojan Stupica and starring Vladimir Skrbinsek, Elvira Kralj and...
- attacked and ridiculed by Menippean satires include "pedants, bigots, cranks, parvenus, virtuosi, enthusiasts, rapacious and incompetent professional men of all...
- Mademoiselle de Terville by Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux, Le Philosophe parvenu ou Lettres et pièces originales contenant les aventures d'Eugène Sans-Pair...
- Parvenu Point (67°34′S 67°17′W / 67.567°S 67.283°W / -67.567; -67.283) is a low but prominent point forming the north extremity of Pourquoi Pas Island...
- Trimalchio—an allusion to the Latin work Satyricon—the plot followed the rise of a parvenu who s****s wealth to win the woman he loves. For source material, Fitzgerald...
- 2012.659914. S2CID 144753542. Saussy, Haun (2013). "The Refugee Speaks of Parvenus and Their Beautiful Illusions: A Rediscovered 1934 Text by Hannah Arendt"...
- and they will fulfill our wishes. Because the House of Pahlavi were a parvenu house – as Reza Khan had begun his career as a private in the Persian Army...
- defend their spiritual progenitor against aspersions cast by an American parvenu." "1912 Harry Houdini 'Water Torture Cell' Presentation Piece from Circus...
- two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu. Marivaux's father was a Norman financier whose name from birth was Carlet...