Search results for "Parvenu" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and ...
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  • town and middle-class British merchants, whose parvenu background was increasingly evident and galling to Indians of rank, had alienated a large section ...
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  • commented on the caricature-like nature of parvenu Bucharesters (the male prototype, Coconul Drăgan, was "an ennobled hoodlum," while ...
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