Meanings
adjectivepetit-bourgeois (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of petit bourgeois.
However wary you are, however circumspect, however suspicious, in seven long years the abominable tranquility of an essentially petit-bourgeois existence will lull your vigilance.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 175
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