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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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It's made even worse, since my traditional Conservative family in the shires would look down on arriviste Dai Cameron.
Many more felt a sentimental attachment to Jacobitism, or at least alienation from the arriviste courts of William III and the Georges.
In fact society was more porous and there is evidence of the arriviste presumption of young artists in the period.
In it there is as much enthusiasm as serious purpose, as much of the essence of youth as of the arriviste.
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.
Edgar Hoover with his nighttime frolics as an arriviste among Manhattan's haute monde.

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