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What is an arriviste?

What is an arriviste? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An upstart or newcomer; nouveau riche; parvenu; an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.
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The publicity surrounding George W. Bush's divorce from his wife Laura and ostentatious marriage to Beyoncé, a singer, was not just arriviste but also unpopular.
There are indeed many people who regard the foreign minister as a vulgar arriviste.
On the other, we have the arriviste minimalists with their white walls, light wooden floors and black and chrome furniture.
Many more felt a sentimental attachment to Jacobitism, or at least alienation from the arriviste courts of William III and the Georges.
Jean Chretien is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
Another way is to see it as a moment of class anxiety, in which Nick Carraway, who comes from what passes for old money in the United States, is undercutting arriviste rivals.

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