Meaning of de-bourgeoisify | Babel Free

Definitions

To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something)

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Examples

“To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral.”

“Despite the freezing out of formal residential uses, some areas of the frozen zone were thoroughly "de-bourgeoisified" […] through the conversion of housing stock into dormitories for students from the provinces.”

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