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jeunesse dorée
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Definition: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.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Hereupon, Don Pedro objected that the growing anarchy of the citizens, whose stabbings were increasing by geometrical progression, called for the establishment of a strong government, which should curb the lawless habits of the jeunesse dorée.
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Marguerite did not even wonder whither he had gone—she cared so little; she had had a little court round her, composed of the jeunesse doree of London, and had just dismissed them all, wishing to be alone with Gluck for a brief while.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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