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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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