Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rastaquouère

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ras-taquouere
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Derogatory

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from French rastaquouère, from South American Spanish rastacuero.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: rastaquouère, rastacuero

Usage

Derogatory

Inflected Forms

rastaquouères (plural) rastacouère (alternative)

Questions

What does rastaquouère mean?: A social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.
Where does rastaquouère come from?: It is traced to French.

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