#168 bourgeois

bourgeois- (often disparaging) a member of the middle class, especially one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class; a mediocre, unimaginative, or materialistic person

- C16 from Old French borjois, burgeis- burgher, citizen, from bourg- town

- also bourgeoise

Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of virtue. ~ Gustav Flaubert

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