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flâneur
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flâ·neur  (flä-nûr)
n.
An aimless idler; a loafer.

[French, from flâner, to idle about, stroll, of Germanic origin; see pel-2 in Indo-European roots.]

flâneur French [flɑnœr]
n
an idler or loafer
[see flânerie]


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Street photographers or sidewalk flaneurs have the tactical advantage of creating their own urban myths, of participating in the creation of the space captured in their pictures.
By the time Benjamin was writing (he began his study in 1927), the arcades had grown outmoded (in part due to the widespread availability of electric light), and the gentle art of the flaneurs eclipsed, in Benjamin's eyes, by the rush of progress.
 
 
 
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