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flaneur

UK /flɑːˈnɜː(ɹ)/US /flɑˈnʊɚ/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 4

noun2

•
One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. One who walks to observe and enjoy rather than to get somewhere.
- It often seemed to Mallet that he wholly lacked the prime requisite of a graceful flâneur—the simple, sensuous, confident relish of pleasure. — 1875
•
An idler, a loafer.
- The Byrons and Brookes who had defied life from mountain tops were in the end but flaneurs and poseurs, at best mistaking the shadow of courage for the substance of wisdom. — 1920

verb1

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To wander aimlessly or at a lounging pace. To walk to observe and enjoy rather than to get somewhere.
- Meantime, we flaneured about the Guernsey market, and a remarkable pretty sight it was this bright morning. — 1867

forms

flaneured · flaneuring · flaneurs · flâneurs

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