Citations:flaneur

English citations of flaneur and flâneur

• 1998, Sally Munt, Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space, A&C Black (→ISBN), page 34:

  [...] homophobically alludes when she refers to 'the tedious nastiness of the Wilde story'. Wilde's sexual wanderings, amongst the aristocracy, the working class and as a Westerner in the 'Orient', can be read, imaginatively, as urban ur-flâneuring. Elements of his sexual journeying recall the flâneur's, and the modern flâneur is indissoluble from Wildean wit. Fin de siecle decadence was marked by a blurring of gender distinctions: [...]

• 2015, John Hartley, Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns, A Companion to New Media Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 179:

  Voyeurism and flaneuring present modes of observation that can also be understood as ways of listening in on one's peripheral environment. In the context of social network sites, the practice of surveying and traversing through friends' profiles permits "peripheral awareness and ambient community" (Erickson 2010: 1194). The practice of following opinion leaders on Twitter has been likened to emerging disciplines of listening in social media, characterized by background listening, [...]

verb: to wander aimlessly

• (Can we date this quote?), Hussain Ajina, Tiger's Adventure, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 20"

  As things were she flaneured her way round winding roads, in the vain hope that she'd stumble upon somewhere she recognised. She never did. At least the weather had been dry.

• 1867, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, page 64:

  Meantime, we flaneured about the Guernsey market, and a remarkable pretty sight it was this bright morning.

• 1931, Western Architect and Engineer:

  They designed in the current Parisian idiom as Hunt had done in his time. They became virtuosos of the Cartouche and the Vermiculated Voussoir. They foregathered at Martin's where everybody spoke French and "flaneured" along Fifth Avenue as though they were on the Boul Mich.

• 2014, Cate Kennedy, Australian Love Stories, Inkerman & Blunt Publishers (→ISBN):

  My father was the same, happy enough being lost, but he sometimes felt the need to be coarse, even insulting, about the women he flaneured along behind. I don't know why. In truth, he loved them.

• 2015, Bruce Bauman, Broken Sleep, Other Press, LLC (→ISBN):

  Still, I wrote him often, and although I missed him, through autumn I contentedly flaneured about. At Alchemy's Christmas break we flew to Paris and stayed at Nathaniel's flat on Rue du Cherche-Midi. The three of us would lahdidah to the Luxembourg Gardens, where we read Alchemy the French canon of subversive lit. Nathaniel often convened with the Babacools, a group of aging or neohippies, at the Rond Point café for a nightcap or three.

• 2017, Nate Dern, Not Quite a Genius, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 18:

  That same semester, I found out that I was the recipient of a fellowship to attend Cambridge University in England. The show had not yet aired in syndication in the United Kingdom. Once in Cambridge, I walked down the streets without getting recognized. My classmates did not know I was on a reality TV show, or anything else about me. For the first time in my life, I lived alone without roommates or family. I traveled by myself to countries where I didn't speak the language. I flaneured.

verb: to lean idly, like a loafer or loiterer

• 1921 (or 1920), Octavus Roy Cohen, Highly Colored, page 237:

  Florian insinuated himself before the other, flâneured against a two-by-four upright and tried to appear nonchalant.

• 1922, Octavus Roy Cohen, Assorted Chocolates, page 138:

  The others watched him with expressions ranging from morbid interest to revengeful delight. Time was — and not so very far was — that Skimp's pocket-book had been the receptacle for most of the money won at the club's weekly sessions. Skimp raised horror-stricken eyes and uttered a poker parable. "My Lawd," said he, "stud poker sho'ly do ac' quick!" Florian Slappey nodded sympathetically as he flaneured elegantly against the corner of the table.