bourgeois

adj

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), from Frankish *burg, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.

1. Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

   “bourgeois opinion”

   “It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.”

2. Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
3. Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

name

1. A surname from French.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English burjois, from French Bourgois, probably from Bourges (a city in France) + -ois (forming adjectives) but possibly from bourgeois above or after Jean de Bourgeois who worked as a printer in Rouen c. 1500.

1. A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

verb

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), from Frankish *burg, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.

1. To make bourgeois.