rastaquouère

Definitions

A social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.

derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

“Like⟳ the prodigal rastaquouères—those Latin American millionaires who flaunted their wealth in Paris in the hope⟳ of gaining entry into the beau monde—writers and intellectuals loved to put⟳ on cosmopolitan airs after visiting the French capital—they had left their Hispanic backwaters and could now swim⟳ with the tide of modern life.”

“That is, willing to drop the surveillance and shelve the files of all his other current assignments, to concentrate on this band of rastaquouères who had blown so problematically into town.”

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