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Bourgeois

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Bourgeois 

a city dweller in medieval western Europe, a burgher; in capitalist society, a representative of the class of the bourgeoisie; or often a philistine and member of the middle classes (a representative of the petite bourgeoisie).
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The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with clash antagonisms.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context
The coadjutor proceeded onward to the quay by way of the Rue de la Monnaie; there he found groups of bourgeois clad in black cloaks or gray, according as they belonged to the upper or lower bourgeoisie.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Capitalism was adjudged by the sociologists of the time to be the culmination of bourgeois rule, the ripened fruit of the bourgeois revolution.
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