Boulevardier

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Origin

Borrowing from fr boulevardier, from boulevard + -ier.

Full definition of boulevardier

Noun

1. A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
• 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 20:Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.
• 2007, August 19, Alex Marshall, The Extreme Boulevardier, 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.

Synonyms

• man about town
• flaneur

Coordinate terms

• mall rat