flaneur - n., an idle man-about-town, a loafer.
From French flâner, to saunter, stroll, lounge about. Coined by Baudelaire, apparently (how like him!). I note the existence of the La Société des Flâneurs Sans Frontières.
---L.
From French flâner, to saunter, stroll, lounge about. Coined by Baudelaire, apparently (how like him!). I note the existence of the La Société des Flâneurs Sans Frontières.
---L.
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Date: 2006-05-11 09:50 pm (UTC)---L.