parvenue

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See also: Parvenü

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French parvenue, feminine past participle of parvenir (to arrive), learned borrowing from Latin parvenire, from per- (through) + venire (to come).

Noun

parvenue (plural parvenues)

  1. female equivalent of parvenu
    • 1869, Fanny Aikin Kortright, Pro aris et focis. , page 30:
      They have seen women of rank, and parvenues, chaste maidens and anonymas, in a confused and gaudy glare of barbarous splendour.

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French

Participle

parvenue f sg

  1. feminine singular of parvenu

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