Terms for Persons
Terms
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- valet
- manservant who attends to the personal needs of his employer, as by taking care of his clothes
- gourmet
- connoisseur in eating and drinking
- connoisseur
- expert; critical judge
- envoy
- diplomatic agent or messenger
- protégé (m) or protégée (f)
- someone taught, protected, or advanced by a person of experience or influence
- entourage
- group of attendants, assistants, or associates accompanying a person
- chargé d'affaires
- temporary substitute for an ambassador
- devotee
- zealous follower; ardent adherent of something or someone; fan
- entrepreneur
- one who assumes the risks and management of a business
- attaché
- member of the diplomatic staff of an ambassador or minister
- nouveaux riches
- persons newly rich
- martinet
- person who enforces very strict discipline
- concierge
- doorkeeper; custodian; janitor / hotel employee who handles mail, arranges for theater reservations, etc.
- raconteur
- person who excels in telling stories, anecdotes, etc.
- confrere
- colleague; co-worker; comrade
- ingenue
- actress playing the role of a naive young woman; naive young woman
- parvenu (m) (or parvenue) (f)
- person suddenly risen to wealth or power who lacks the proper social qualifications; upstart
- elite
- group of individuals thought to be superior; aristocracy; choice part
- coterie
- set or circle of acquaintances; clique
- debutante
- young woman who has just had her debut (introduction into society)
- bourgeoisie
- the middle class
- émigré (m) (or émigrée (f))
- refugee; person who has fled (emigrated) from his or her native land because of political conditions
- gourmand
- person excessively fond of eating and drinking; glutton
- gendarme
- armed police officer, especially in France and other European countries
- fiancé (m) (or fiancée) (f)
- person engaged to be married
- maître d'hôtel (or maître d')
- headwaiter
- nonpareil
- person of unequalled excellence; paragon