Parvenu
Relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past participle of the verb parvenir (to reach, to arrive, to manage to do something).
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