Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
flaneur .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word flaneurs.
Examples
-
But it also helps to be looking through the proper lens—to notice, for instance, that those would-be flaneurs outside trendy Bar del Fico Piazza del Fico, 26; www.bardelfico.it , their heads turning in unison every time a pretty girl walks by, are straight out of "I Vitelloni," the director's pivotal portrait of frustrated, provincial 20-something men.
Finding Fellini Lee Marshall 2011
-
Some evenings will be devoted to three short half-hour performances, each costing $2.50, targeted at the flaneurs in flip-flops and club-hopping tourists who swarm Lincoln Road in the evening.
In Miami, the shape of things to come Philip Kennicott 2011
-
This one-day taster includes a photography workshop, a symposium by the Walking Artists Network, and the chance to hit the streets as an elastic-bound group of slow-moving flaneurs.
-
For the flaneurs planning to take the tour, Gowalla, the travel-oriented app for smartphones, will help create a custom "Hypothetical Development Trip" for the project.
-
It is this impulse that convinces avid porn watchers that they are really erotic sociologists; that teaches peeping toms to fancy themselves flaneurs; and prompts liars to perceive that they are merely gifted enough to see the world as it should be.
Caroline Hagood: What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010
-
"They're flaneurs," he said, using Baudelaire's derivative of the French word meaning "to stroll."
-
It is this impulse that convinces avid porn watchers that they are really erotic sociologists; that teaches peeping toms to fancy themselves flaneurs; and prompts liars to perceive that they are merely gifted enough to see the world as it should be.
-
For the flaneurs planning to take the tour, Gowalla, the travel-oriented app for smartphones, will help create a custom "Hypothetical Development Trip" for the project.
-
For the flaneurs planning to take the tour, Gowalla, the travel-oriented app for smartphones, will help create a custom "Hypothetical Development Trip" for the project.
-
Hallucinating California is a collection of urban vignettes by two psychodelibilly flaneurs Wharf-Ratting around the 415 and the 916.
TWO COLLABORATIONS by RICHARD LOPEZ & JONATHAN HAYES EILEEN 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.