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Italian
Etymology
From Parioli + -ino.
Adjective
pariolino (feminine pariolina, masculine plural pariolini, feminine plural parioline)
- of, from or relating to Parioli (district of Rome)
- describing what is defined at the noun below
- 1974, Una CISL forte e unita per l'unità e per lo sviluppo della società italiana
A parte il qualunquismo di tipo pariolino che sta sotto ad affermazioni di questo genere, ma di fronte ai ritardi, di fronte all'inerzia, alle resistenze […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
pariolino m (plural pariolini, feminine pariolina)
- native or inhabitant of Parioli (male or of unspecified gender)
- (Rome, informal) a person with a bourgeois standard of living and right-of-centre politics
- (Rome, slang) a bourgeois fashioned youngster of Rome
- 1987, di Ottiero, Ottieri - Improvvisa la vita
Percorse a piedi una parte del viale Mohammed Ve si fermò a osservare una bella pariolina che passava sul marciapiede sotto gli alberi di aranci e mandarini- Having walked a part of the avenue Mohammed Ve stopped to look at a beautiful pariolina passing by under the orange and tangerine trees.
- (derogatory, dated) a bourgeois and snobby behaviour/behavior
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