bourgeois, n.Definitions

A Bourgeois is a pig that eats its own black pudding.

A Bourgeois is someone who only is what he owns.

A Bourgeois is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.

The Bourgeois is one who sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

The Bourgeois is someone who prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The Bourgeois is the regime of private affairs, and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited.