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de-bourgeoisify

verb

Etymology

From de- + bourgeoisify.

  1. derived from *burgz✻
  2. derived from *burg✻
  3. derived from borgeis — “town dweller”
  4. suffixed as bourgeoisify — “bourgeois + ify”
  5. prefixed as de-bourgeoisify — “de + bourgeoisify”

Definitions

  1. To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something)

    • To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral.
    • Despite the freezing out of formal residential uses, some areas of the frozen zone were thoroughly "de-bourgeoisified" […] through the conversion of housing stock into dormitories for students from the provinces.

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