Edinbourgeois

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noun

A resident of Edinburgh.

OriginFrench Edimbourgeois →
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Meanings

nounEdinbourgeois (plural Edinbourgeois)
  1. A resident of Edinburgh.

    In 1822 the Edinbourgeois started to build the Parthenon on top of the Calton Hill, to commemorate the war.

    2014, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History: new edition, →ISBN, page 148
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    Brian Cassells' theory about morbid publicity being good publicity had proved incorrect and the average Edinbourgeois was too affronted by the title alone to consider seeing the show.

    2011, Simon Brett -, So Much Blood, →ISBN

    Christopher Wallace, originally German but now an Edinbourgeois, in his The Resurrection Club (1999) queries the dissection and consumption of ourselves through markets of memory like Edinburgh Festivals.

    2012, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders, →ISBN

Origin

  1. FrenchEdimbourgeois
  2. EnglishEdinbourgeois

From French Edimbourgeois.

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APA

Edinbourgeois. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Edinbourgeois

MLA

“Edinbourgeois.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Edinbourgeois. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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