Plural of boulevardier; multiple men of fashion or idle wealthy persons who frequent fashionable public streets.
French plural of boulevardier, formed by adding -s, referring to a group of these fashionable gentlemen.
If you see 'boulevardiers' used in period literature, you're getting a snapshot of a specific moment when being wealthy and idle was something to flaunt publicly.
Plural of 'boulevardier'; preserves masculine agent noun form. Historically, references to groups of fashion-conscious urban strollers defaulted to masculine, erasing or marginalizing women's participation in urban public life.
Use 'flâneurs' (gender-neutral French plural) or 'boulevard loungers' in English. Specify 'fashionable men and women of the boulevards' if precision needed.
["flâneurs","urban strollers","boulevard frequenters"]
Women's role in shaping 19th-century boulevard culture and flânerie has been historically downplayed in literature and urban history.
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