parvenue
See also: Parvenü
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French parvenue, feminine past participle of parvenir (“to arrive”), learned borrowing from Latin parvenire, from per- (“through”) + venire (“to come”).
Noun
editparvenue (plural parvenues)
- female equivalent of parvenu
- 1869, Fanny Aikin Kortright, Pro aris et focis. [On women's work.], page 30:
- They have seen women of rank, and parvenues, chaste maidens and anonymas, in a confused and gaudy glare of barbarous splendour.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editFrench
editParticiple
editparvenue f sg
Further reading
edit- “parvenue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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