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Jeunesse doree   Listen
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Jeunesse doree  n.  Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.





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... senior, but our tastes, our judgments, and our characters were alike, save only that he had in him a touch of pride such as I have never known in any other man. Putting aside the little foibles of a rich young man of fashion, les indescretions d'une jeunesse doree, I could have sworn that he was as good a man as I have ...
— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle


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