rastaquouère

plural rastaquouères · alternative rastacouère

1. derogatoryA social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.

   That is, willing to drop the surveillance and shelve the files of all his other current assignments, to concentrate on this band of rastaquouères who had blown so problematically into town.

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 640

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   Like the prodigal rastaquouères—those Latin American millionaires who flaunted their wealth in Paris in the hope of gaining entry into the beau monde—writers and intellectuals loved to put on cosmopolitan airs after visiting the French capital—they had left their Hispanic backwaters and could now swim with the tide of modern life.

   1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 304