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Meaning of Edinbourgeois | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A resident of Edinburgh.

Examples

Brian Cassells' theory about morbid publicity being good publicity had proved incorrect and the average Edinbourgeois was too affronted by the title alone to consider seeing the show.”
Christopher Wallace, originally German but now an Edinbourgeois, in his The Resurrection Club (1999) queries the dissection and consumption of ourselves through markets of memory like Edinburgh Festivals.”
“In 1822 the Edinbourgeois started to build the Parthenon on top of the Calton Hill, to commemorate the war.”

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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