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- noun Fashionable and wealthy young people.
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- noun
Young people who aredazzlingly rich ,elegant , etc.; theyouthful part offashionable society .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French : jeunesse, youth + dorée, gilded.]
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French jeunesse dorée (gilded youth)
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whichbe commented on the word jeunesse dorée
'Gilded youth'; rich young people.
May 15, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word jeunesse dorée
JM gets scared when the jeunesse dorée are also predominantly blondes
February 16, 2009
MaryW commented on the word jeunesse dorée
Charles Rowan Beye, My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), p. 139.<blockquote>At the time of the trip to Athens . . . only my two daughters and I were to go . . . . The younger went to school for her senior year at an American-style international institution in a posh suburb of Athens with the children of the diplomatic corps and the rest of the <i>jeunesse dorée d'Athènes</i>.</blockquote><i>Id.</i>, p. 207.
March 6, 2016