a person who strolls about idly, as along the fashionable boulevards of Paris
Origin of flâneur
French from flâner, to stroll from Old Norse flana: see flauntflâneur
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flaneur
noun
An aimless idler; a loafer.
Origin of flaneur
French from flâner to idle about, stroll of Germanic origin ; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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