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[bourgeois 词源字典] - bourgeois: see borough
[bourgeois etymology, bourgeois origin, 英语词源] - bourgeois (adj.)
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- 1560s, "of the French middle class," from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois "town dweller" (see bourgeoisie). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, as a noun, "a capitalist" (1883).
It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian. [Aldous Huxley, 1930]