English Explanatory Dictionary

épater le bourgeois

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To scandalize, provoke the middle class.

Word forms

épater le bourgeois épater la bourgeoisie

Etymology

Borrowed from French épater le bourgeois (“amaze the bourgeois”).

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