boulevardier
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4ADJ.
fun, hard, old
VERB + BOULEVARDIER
like
BOULEVARDIER + NOUN
bourbon
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.
The 19th century was the age of the flaneur and the boulevardier, figures who made strolling down Fifth Avenue or Broadway, often vividly attired, a fashionable activity worthy of their counterparts in Paris or London.
An alcoholic drink similar to a negroni but made with bourbon instead of gin.
The boulevardier is a fun drink. Similar to the negroni, the boulevardier features bourbon as the spirit instead of gin for the negroni. To be clear, they are different drinks but at the same time similar.[…]
Make no bones about it, if you were drinking a Boulevardier at Harry's in 1920, you were also drinking in a few hundred litres of smoke-filled air alongside it.[…]
verb
To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
One spectacular being clothed liked a boulevardiering cavalier and having the mein of a finished chesterfieldian gentleman was noted seated in an oak near the cabin one day. ... It was a northern butcher-bird, the aggressive shrike ....
It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.
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6Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.
WiktionaryThe 19th century was the age of the flaneur and the boulevardier, figures who made strolling down Fifth Avenue or Broadway, often vividly attired, a fashionable activity worthy of their counterparts i
WiktionaryThe boulevardier is a fun drink. Similar to the negroni, the boulevardier features bourbon as the spirit instead of gin for the negroni. To be clear, they are different drinks but at the same time sim
WiktionaryOne spectacular being clothed liked a boulevardiering cavalier and having the mein of a finished chesterfieldian gentleman was noted seated in an oak near the cabin one day. ... It was a northern butc
WiktionaryIt's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.
WiktionaryFor that quick romantic getaway, a weekend in the city of love, especially in spring or autumn, still delivers in terms of candlelit bistros, afternoons in cafés and boulevardiering in the Marais.
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