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Flâneur: meaning, pronunciation and examples
Flâneur noun. Someone who strolls about a city at leisure, idly watching its life.
How to say it
flah-NUR/flɑːˈnəː/
2 syllables, stressed on the second (NUR).
Flâneur in a sentence
As a student in Paris, he played the flâneur, drifting from café to bookstall.
Her photographs read like a flâneur's notebook of London backstreets.
Similar and opposite
Similar:
- stroller
- idler
- saunterer
- boulevardier
Where flâneur comes from
French, from flâner, to stroll or lounge about.
Test yourself
Which word fills the gap?
Her photographs read like a _____'s notebook of London backstreets.
- juggernaut
- zeitgeist
- flâneur
Show the answer
flâneur: Her photographs read like a flâneur's notebook of London backstreets.