Bourgeois
The adjective refers to the characteristic of the social middle class, or something marked by a concern for material interests.
Origin:
This is a French word commonly used in English now. It is derived from the Old French words “burgeis “borjois, meaning town dweller. Gradually it extended to tradespeople or citizens of middle rank in other nations. Around the end of the 19th Century, as a noun it was used in communist and socialist writing to refer to a capitalist.
Usage
She loathed the bourgeois notions of acceptable behaviour.
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