The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boulevardier \Boule`var`dier"\, n. [F.]
A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, French, "one who frequents the boulevard;" i.e.: man-about-town, one fond of urban living and society.
Wiktionary
n. A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or ''bon vivant''. vb. (context intransitive English) To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
Wikipedia
The boulevardier cocktail is an alcoholic drink composed of bourbon, sweet vermouth, and campari. Its creation is ascribed to Erskine Gwynne, an American-born writer who founded a monthly magazine in Paris called Boulevardier, which appeared from 1927 to 1932.
The boulevardier is similar to a Negroni, sharing two of its three ingredients. It is differentiated by its use of bourbon whiskey or rye whiskey as its principal component instead of gin. Paul Clark, writing for the food blog Serious Eats, says, "This isn't a Negroni. It is, however, the Negroni's long-lost autumnal cousin." He continued:
Recipes vary the proportions of its components. Some boulevardier recipes call for 1 1/2 parts rather than 1 part whiskey, or call for two parts bourbon to one part vermouth and one part campari.
Usage examples of "boulevardier".
He saw a man of elegant and easy figure, still young, with nothing solemn or imposing about him, having more the air of a boulevardier or of a sportsman than of a magistrate.
But the most irritating of girl--men is assuredly the Parisian and the boulevardier, in whom the appearance of intelligence is more marked and who combines in himself all the attractions and all the faults of those charming creatures in an exaggerated degree in virtue of his masculine temperament.
In a carefree gesture, worthy of a boulevardier, he swung the keys round on the end of the chain before tucking them back into his pocket.
Upon occasion a hooded friar, and from time to time a boulevardier with cloak and walking stick.
He saw a man of elegant and easy figure, still young, with nothing solemn or imposing about him, having more the air of a boulevardier or of a sportsman than of a magistrate.
But the most irritating of girl--men is assuredly the Parisian and the boulevardier, in whom the appearance of intelligence is more marked and who combines in himself all the attractions and all the faults of those charming creatures in an exaggerated degree in virtue of his masculine temperament.
I was something less than a gay boulevardier on the order of, say, the late Maurice Chevalier.
Born as Maggie Oaks in Bermondsey, resplendent later as Margaretta Olivera in a place of honour in the nuder tableaux of the Follies, she had furred her nest with a notable collection of skins, both human and animal, up to the time when she met and married Count Jannowicz, a Polish boulevardier of great age and reputedly fabulous riches.
The boulevardiers were out for a stroll, reveling in the last fine weather of autumn—leisured gentlemen in well-tailored blazers, men of letters, self-proclaimed wits andartistes.
The boulevardiers were out for a stroll, reveling in the last fine weather of autumn—leisured gentlemen in well-tailored blazers, men of letters, self-proclaimed wits and artistes.
The boulevardiers were out for a stroll, reveling in the last fine weather of autumnleisured gentlemen in well-tailored blazers, men of letters, self-proclaimed wits and artistes.
He pushed the button to open the door, part of his mind expecting to find himself looking at an ornate lobby with red velvet curtains and crystal chandeliers, a throng of elegant boulevardiers parading before them, with a bewigged flunkey in a frogged brocade coat and knee breeches bowing unctuously to greet Emily and himself to the restaurant.