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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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Edgar Hoover with his nighttime frolics as an arriviste among Manhattan's haute monde.
There are indeed many people who regard the foreign minister as a vulgar arriviste.
In it there is as much enthusiasm as serious purpose, as much of the essence of youth as of the arriviste.
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.
In Thackeray's next full-length novel, the Newcomes are so called because they are both a nouveau riche and an arriviste family.
On the other, we have the arriviste minimalists with their white walls, light wooden floors and black and chrome furniture.

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