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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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Believe me, the work of a line cook in a restaurant catering to the tastes of arriviste Texans is even more boring than it is cracked up to be.
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.
There are indeed many people who regard the foreign minister as a vulgar arriviste.
Edgar Hoover with his nighttime frolics as an arriviste among Manhattan's haute monde.
In fact society was more porous and there is evidence of the arriviste presumption of young artists in the period.
It's made even worse, since my traditional Conservative family in the shires would look down on arriviste Dai Cameron.

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