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BOURGEOIS

of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class

The meaning of the word bourgeois is of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class.

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embodyto give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate
subalternparticular with reference to a related universal proposition
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rostera roll or list of personnel
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