petite bourgeoisie

Definition of petite bourgeoisie

: the lower middle class including especially small shopkeepers and artisans

Examples of petite bourgeoisie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Image This tournament, thus far, has belonged not to soccer’s great aristocratic houses, but to its petite bourgeoisie. — Rory Smith, New York Times, "This Is When the World Cup Surprises End. Usually.," 29 June 2018 Each mobilized men and women from a broad spectrum of the population but had particular attraction for the petite bourgeoisie. — Nancy K. Maclean, Slate Magazine, "America’s Brush With Fascism," 20 Mar. 2017 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. — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, "How the airport came to embody our national psychosis.," 7 Sep. 2017

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“Petite bourgeoisie.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petite%20bourgeoisie. Accessed 19 January 2020.

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