Definition of petite bourgeoisie
: the lower middle class including especially small shopkeepers and artisans
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Each mobilized men and women from a broad spectrum of the population but had particular attraction for the petite bourgeoisie.
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The airport is to America’s petite bourgeoisie—the small-time capitalists and traveling salesmen who delivered us to Trump—what the factory is to the white working class: a symbol of how much better things used to be.
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Origin and Etymology of petite bourgeoisie
French, literally, small bourgeoisie
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