epater shock

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• Épater la bourgeoisie — or épater le bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Baudelaire and Rimbaud. [ [http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/Decadence.htm Decadence ] ] It means to shock the… …   Wikipedia

• épater — [ā pȧ tā′] vt. 〚Fr〛 to startle or shock, as out of complacency, conventionality, etc. * * * …   Universalium

• épater les bourgeois — shock people regarded as conventional or complacent. → épater …   English new terms dictionary

• épater — [ā pȧ tā′] vt. [Fr] to startle or shock, as out of complacency, conventionality, etc …   English World dictionary

• épater le bourgeois — or épater les bourgeois foreign term Etymology: French to shock the middle classes …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• épater — [eɪ pateɪ] verb (in phr. épater les bourgeois) shock people regarded as conventional or complacent. Origin from Fr …   English new terms dictionary

• painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …   Universalium

• Charles Baudelaire — Baudelaire redirects here. For other uses, see Baudelaire (disambiguation). Charles Pierre Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire ca. 1863 Born April 9, 1821 Paris, France Died August 31, 1867 …   Wikipedia

• Urmuz — Demetru Dem. Demetrescu Buzău Urmuz, circa 1920, photographer unknown Born March 17, 1883 Curtea de Argeş Died November 23, 1923(1923 11 23 …   Wikipedia

• é|pa|ter le bour|geois — «ay pa TAY luh bur ZHWAH», French. to shock the bourgeois: »He was an establishment figure but found it a pleasure and…a duty to épater le bourgeois (London Times) …   Useful english dictionary