English

Noun

boulevardier ‎(plural boulevardiers)

1. A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 20:

     Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.

   • 2007 August 19, Alex Marshall, “The Extreme Boulevardier”, in New York Times:

     The 19th century was the age of the flaneur and the boulevardier, figures who made strolling down Fifth Avenue or Broadway, often vividly attired, a fashionable activity worthy of their counterparts in Paris or London.

Synonyms

• man about town
• flaneur

Coordinate terms

• mall rat

See also

• bon vivant
• dandy

Verb

boulevardier ‎(third-person singular simple present boulevardiers, present participle boulevardiering, simple past and past participle boulevardiered)

1. (intransitive) To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
   • 1914, Robert Page Lincoln, "Wood Hollow Days", Chapter VI, Forest and Stream (83) (Dec 5, 1914) p. 739

     One spectacular being clothed liked a boulevardiering cavalier and having the mein of a finished chesterfieldian gentleman was noted seated in an oak near the cabin one day. ... It was a northern butcher-bird, the aggressive shrike ....

   • 1999, Bruce Dundore, "The Eagle Has Landed", Advertising Age (May 1, 1999)

     It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.

   • 2010, Chris Moss, 1000 Great Holiday Ideas (Time Out Books) p. 110

     For that quick romantic getaway, a weekend in the city of love, especially in spring or autumn, still delivers in terms of candlelit bistros, afternoons in cafés and boulevardiering in the Marais.

French

Adjective

boulevardier m ‎(feminine singular boulevardière, masculine plural boulevardiers, feminine plural boulevardières)

1. boulevardier (attributive)

Noun

boulevardier m ‎(plural boulevardiers)

1. boulevardier