boulevardier en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌbu-/
- /ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdɪɹ/
- /ˌbʊləvɑɹˈdjeɪ/
Etymology
Borrowed from French boulevardier, from boulevard + -ier.
Meanings
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A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
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.
2007 August 19, Alex Marshall, “The Extreme Boulevardier”, in New York Times:Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 20:
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(capitalized, often) A cocktail 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.[…]
2018 September 1, Albert W. A. Schmid, How to Drink Like a Mobster: Prohibition-Style Cocktails, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:"We're drinking Boulevardiers."
2022 June 28, Ann McMan, Dead Letters from Paradise, Bywater Books, →ISBN: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.[…]
2018 December 6, Tristan Stephenson, The Curious Bartender Volume II: The New Testament of Cocktails, Ryland Peters & Small, →ISBN:On the revival menu: boulevardiers, martinis, Manhattans, negronis, old fashioneds and more.
2021 October 4, Patrick Evans-Hylton, Virginia Distilled: Four Centuries of Drinking in the Old Dominion, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 176:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| boulevardiers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (4)
fr boulevardière (a man who frequents the boulevards) · ro bulevardier (a man who frequents the boulevards) · fr boulevardier (a man who frequents the boulevards) · pl lew salonowy (a man who frequents the boulevards)