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Jeunesse doree

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Jeu`nesse´ do`ree´
1.Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; - in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.
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The furnishings are in the style of a hunting lodge and the jeunesse doree here dresses appropriately.
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