flaneur
suomi-englanti sanakirjaflaneur englanniksi
One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace.
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(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Parisians)Bevil drew him up to the door-step of a house close by, where, on certain evenings, a well-known club drew together men who seldom meet so familiarly elsewhere—men of all callings; a club especially favoured by wits, authors, and the flaneurs of polite society.
(RQ:James Roderick Hudson)
(RQ:James Italian Hours)
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Barry Estabrook|title=Gourmet|month=October|chapter=Good Living|page=57
(quote-journal) (Review)|date=23 August 2014|passage=In observing Dublin in this way – its cultural and geographic context, its streets and skies, neighbours and wider world – Whitney is occupying consciously the role of flâneur, defined by Baudelaire|Baudelaire as "a lounger or saunterer, an idle man about town", a gatherer of aesthetic impressions.
(RQ:Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise)
{{quote-text|en|year=1867|title=The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance|page=64
{{quote-book|en|year=2015|author=Bruce Bauman|title=Broken Sleep|publisher=Other Press, LLC|isbn=9781590514498
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A person who walks the city in order to experience it.