Bourgeois

[Sarah]

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

[Sarah]

Adj. When pronounced BOO-zhee (soft-j sound like in French) refers to a quality of (sometimes mildly) snobby-without-realizing-it, upper-middle-class sensibilities. Usually associated with upper-middle-income white people, but not necessarily. Can involve driving the right car, getting the right (healthy or gourmet) foods, having a professional/white-collar job, always having nice things, lattes at Starbucks or elsewhere because you think you're above Starbucks, having a well-diversified stock portfolio and other retirement savings, having a special set of dishes and everything else just for Christmas, status-symbol kids or pets, carbon offsets, thinking wine is cheap, listening to NPR, and gentrifying neighborhoods. Even though not all of these things may be bad and some of them could be done by anybody (like healthy food or looking down on Starbucks), it's a certain combination and a certain attitude that goes along with it that you know when you see. As with many type-of-people-describing things, there can be some overlap with other things, [yuppy] stuff and [hipster] stuff especially (although hipsters tend to be associated with 20-somethings, and yuppies tend to be younger-middle-age; bourgeois has more of an association with younger-middle-age-thru-older-middle-age); can be distinguished from super-rich stuff; some people might do bourgeois things occasionally or do things in a bourgeois way, but some people are just bourgeois and usually don't realize it.

[Sarah]

According to Karl Marx, there were only two classes: those controlling the means of power and those not. The bourgeois were those who controlled the political system, creating laws and values that would ensure their control of power over the proletariat working class.

[Sarah]

the quality of being extravagant or hoity-toity. Originally used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to describe the class antagonism in Europe at the end of the 19th century.

[Sarah]

originally refers to the middle class people in a capitalist society, however now used to refer to posh people.

[Sarah]

a nickname for Brett P.

[Sarah]

Short for Bourgeoisie, it's a name for middle class; music is what makes them come together

[Sarah]

a slang term for any amount of middle grade marijuana coined from the term bourgeoisie for the french middle class

[Sarah]

Group of skeezers, like the song they play in abercrombie that says We

[Sarah]

A person of extreme importance. Usually French. Can be an ass. The best people ever.

[Magaret]

[Bourgeoisie], in todays terms, means middle-class, and is usually used as a pejorative term for the materialistic, rather affluent, conventional-minded part of society that feels on the upper levels. This group is hierarchically narrow-minded and overly-concerned with the idea of social levels, despising everything and everyone that doesnt [measure up] socially and/or financially. When making new acquaintances, they normally put an exceptionally high-priority on well-established backgrounds, traditional manners (feeling therewith aristocratic, according to their clichées), and wealth and social status. Utterly socially [pedantic] themselves, theyll always be afraid of what may seem unconventional or considered socially odd.
The term refers by no means to the genuine aristocratic stratum, which would be considered the true upper class. Although the [aristocracy] might display a certain [elitism], the true [aristocrat], being well-read, travelled around the world, and having had a top-class well-rounded (and not only business-oriented) education, is curious and fascinated by the multifacetedness of life, and the fact that the world cannot be reduced to a hierarchical structure lubricated by money. A true aristocrat will have a mind affine to philosophy, literature and art. Fine Art, as a form of human expression and heritage, and not as a sign of social status and prestige (which is the way the [bourgeoisie] acts towards renowned art, trying to emulate aristocratic tendencies).

[Sonia]

Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.