petty bourgeois--how old?
Jules Levin
ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET
Thu May 10 23:07:57 UTC 2012
On 5/10/2012 3:58 PM, Ellen Elias-Bursac wrote:
> For its English-language usage, the Online Etymology Dictionary says:
> petit bourgeois "conventional middle-class" (1853, used by Charlotte
> Brontë earlier than by Marx or Engels; petty bourgeois, however, is
> attested from 1850).
I apologize for not making myself clear. Of course I am only interested
in Russian, not in English usage.
Jules Levin
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net
> <mailto:ameliede at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
> How old is the phrase "melkiy burzhua/burzhuy"?
> If used in the 19th Century, would it have been used as an
> official class or category, or only in the
> rhetorical style of certain circles?
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
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