Parisien

See also: parisien

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Parisien.

Proper noun

Parisien (plural Parisiens)

1. A surname from French.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Parisien is the 29581^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 797 individuals. Parisien is most common among American Indian/Alaska Native (46.55%), White (34.25%) and Black/African American (11.17%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Parisien”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Noun

Parisien (plural Parisiens)

1. (uncommon) A Parisian.
   • 1890 May, E[dwin] R[alph] Collins, Wobbles’ Tour Around the World on a Bicycle (The Fireside Series; 109), New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] S[tuart] Ogilvie, […], page 69:

     The next day being Sunday, Wobble gave an exhibition performance on his bicycle in the Jardin d’Acclimatation, in accordance with a special request from the managers of that popular institution. Thousands of Parisiens and Parisiennes flocked there to see it, and they applauded avec beaucoup d’enthusiasme.

   • 1910 February 4, “The Floods in Paris”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XCIV, number 2217, Shanghai, page 241, column 1:

     […] while the merry-go-rounds, toy-stalls and gingerbread kiosks, beloved of little Parisiens and Parisiennes, must have been swept away in dozens.

   • 1915 November 20, “Personal Glimpses: A Scheherezade Tale of the War”, in The Literary Digest, volume LI, number 21 (whole 1335), New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, […], page 1164, column 2:

     Rather, it is transmitted by him, for it came originally, so we learn, from a young boy of a French lieutenant, home on leave, and smiling with dreamy happiness over a café-table at the endless procession of clean, neatly drest Parisiens and Parisiennes passing by on the other side.

   • 1924 January 21, “L’Ambassadeur Bienvenu”, in Time: The Weekly News-Magazine, volume III, number 3, New York, N.Y.: TIME, Incorporated, page 11, column 1:

     “Some time after midnight,” he went to the Seine because he wanted to see it before the floods abated. The following morning he rubbed shoulders with Parisiens and Parisiennes of all kinds, shapes and sizes as he went about in the pouring rain “to do some shopping.”

   • 1943, William Simpson, One of Our Pilots Is Safe, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, page 20:

     The Parisiens and Parisiennes seemed to have adopted the war like a new craze. Women dressed themselves in artistic caricatures of military uniforms, soldiers were admitted half-price to the cinemas, those wearing the distinctive badge of the Maginot Line were heroes.

   • 1953, Leon Edel, Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870, Philadlephia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, page 129:

     It was the old Paris, the Paris of the Revolutions, with its multiplicity of little streets and small squares, its lively Parisiens and Parisiennes.

   • 1960, Raja Rao, The Serpent and the Rope, [New York, N.Y.]: Pantheon Books, published 1963, →LCCN, page 309:

     “They found a Pacific whale off the coast of Brittany just the other day,” said Madeleine. “And what happened?” “It lay dead on the shore.” “I told you so. What did they do with it?” “They placed it at the Esplanade des Invalides, so that all the Parisiens and Parisiennes could see it.”

   • 1999, JTN Monthly, numbers 530–541, page 66, column 1:

     It can be said that it has caught the hearts of Parisiens and Parisiennes as a global life style proposing shop.

   • 2002, Bernard J[oseph] Ficarra, Royal Religious Revolutionaries, LaGrange, Ga.: Four Winds, →ISBN, page 488:

     Parisiens and Parisiennes cheered every person in the procession except Catherine Dei Medici who was not called queen but was referred to as “The Italian Woman.”

   • 2009, George B. Bookman, Headlines, Deadlines, and Lifelines, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 14:

     And as if the houses didn’t crowd the streets enough, the people absolutely choke them so that you elbow your way through masses of gay, laughing, dancing, Parisiens and Parisiennes.

   • 2009, Mark Jaroski, editor, Paris, Wikitravel Press, →ISBN, page 43, columns 1–2:

     The almost incredibly upscale western end of the arrondissement gives way to the hustle and bustle of the big city east of the Palais Royal, and then further east to the pedestrian (and tourist) dominated area around Les Halles and the (currently shuttered) Samaritaine, where tourists mix with (especially young) Parisiens and Parisiennes in huge numbers (on the order of 800,000 unique visitors per day according to the Mayor’s office).

   • 2009, Rob Addison, chapter 1, in The Hands of Time, →ISBN, page 3:

     Tourists, students, Parisiens and Parisiennes waded up and down the spacious square’s treed sidewalks.

   • 2020, Annie Sargent, Join Us at the Table: Easy French Recipes Anyone Can Make at Home‎^[1], →ISBN:

     This warm sandwich originated in Paris, possibly at a Brasserie called Bel Âge on Boulevard des Capucines near the Opera House. The year was 1910, and Parisiens and Parisiennes were heading home after a night at the theater.

Related terms

• Parisienne

French

Etymology

From Paris +‎ -ien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁi.zjɛ̃/

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Noun

Parisien m (plural Parisiens, feminine Parisienne)

1. Parisian (resident or native of Paris)

   Hier, j’ai rencontré un Parisien à Londres. ― Yesterday, I met a Parisian in London.

Related terms

• Paris
• Parigot
• parisianisme

Anagrams

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