parvenu (parvenu)

and a. [ This Pontiff [Pius IV.], a genial, politic man of the world, hot-tempered but placable, a parvenu as compared with the noble birth of his predece ors, had the qualities which belong to the position of a parvenu. Quarterly Rev. , CXLV. 293. IMG:content-2411.png:[blocks in formation]