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petit bourgeois the section of the middle class with the lowest social status, generally composed of shopkeepers, lower clerical staff, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| By zealously adhering to local guidelines, the architects delivered three saddle-roof buildings with small, square groundplans that blend in perfectly with the petit bourgeois neighbourhood, though there is clearly no precedent for such an enthusiastic use of steel. She is after all a professor--a title that attracts the young, petit bourgeois Walter Klemmer, triggering fantasies of possessing his cold, condescending teacher. Randall Robinson's argument for pursuit of reparations hinges on this view of the black American population--lucky petit bourgeois people like himself excepted, of course--as defective and in need of moral and psychological repair. |
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