bourgeois

(le) bourgeois (FR ADJ N-M) (Middle Ages) citizen of a small town (Fr. bourg) at the base of a fortified castle (German: Burg), or any town dweller, the beneficiary of certain privileges; arch someone who is a non-noble, non-priest, does not work with his hands, and possesses some personal property; (1830, pejorative) one who is incapabale of appreciating aesthetically fine things or things outside his sphere of daily life; (modern) middle-class person who is not a manual laborer. In the 19th…