flaneur
/flɑˈnʊɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]Bevil drew him up to the door-step of a house close by, where, on certain evenings, a well-known club drew together men who seldom meet so familiarly elsewhere—men of all callings; a club especially favoured by wits, authors, and the flaneurs of polite society."
- "It often seemed to Mallet that he wholly lacked the prime requisite of a graceful flâneur—the simple, sensuous, confident relish of pleasure."
- "Indeed I lost patience altogether, and asked myself by what right this informal votary of form pretended to run riot through a poor charmed flaneur’s quiet contemplations, his attachment to the noblest of pleasures, his enjoyment of the loveliest of cities."
- "More than any other urban type, the flaneur suggests the contradictions of the modern city, caught between the insistent mobility of the present and the visible weight of the past."
- "Portsmouth is a flaneur’s dream come true, a place that simply begs to be explored randomly and on foot."
- "In observing Dublin in this way – its cultural and geographic context, its streets and skies, neighbours and wider world – Whitney is occupying consciously the role of flâneur, defined by Baudelaire as "a lounger or saunterer, an idle man about town", a gatherer of aesthetic impressions."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /flɑˈnʊɚ/
- British English: /flɑːˈnɜː(ɹ)/