(n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
(n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
(n.) A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
(2) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(3) The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.
(4) The alternative is too terrifying; that mad, flawed, myopic boors are running our clubs.
(5) The role of the nurse in giving information to patients has grown considerably following the work of researchers such as Hayward (1975), Boore (1978) and Wilson-Barnett (1978).
(6) You don’t talk to them the way Sattler talked to Gillard, unless you want to be quite explicit about the fact that you are a rude, ill-mannered, nasty little boor.
(7) But that doesn’t mean he is obliged to lower the tone of a damaged politics still further by pronouncing in the style of a saloon bar boor.
(8) Nor are they necessarily so superficial that they can only see him as a loud-mouthed boor.
(9) Malevich took up the cudgels: "Boors continue to follow on one after the other and I've lost count of how many there have been in our time!
Huguenot
Definition:
(n.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Britain was a liberal country – “a tolerant decent nation”, as Blair put it – which was proud to have provided a home to the Huguenots fleeing Louis XIV, the Jews fleeing tsarism and Nazism, the Poles and Hungarians fleeing communism and the Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin.
(2) Since both families have French Huguenot ancestors and since there are 7 confirmed and 5 reported cases of B-SS in these two families, founder effect may be operating and causing this rare disorder to occur more frequently in this population group than would otherwise be expected.
(3) His father, Wilfred Paradine Frost, was a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent; David reportedly more resembled his mother Mona.
(4) This is why it has survived so long, although, ironically, it lay in an oubliette of relative obscurity until denounced by a Huguenot exile, who claimed that it was Catherine de' Medici's favourite book and a work that encouraged bloodthirsty, cynical statecraft.
(5) It is because different ethnic groups came to live together in one small island that we first made a virtue of tolerance, welcoming and included successive waves of settlers - from Saxons and Normans to Huguenots and Jews and Asians and African-Caribbeans - and recognising plural identities.
(6) As many of those buried in the crypt were Huguenots interest centred on the relation between weaving and osteoarthritis of the hands but none was found using a case-control study.
(7) Sarrazin, a former finance minister for the state of Berlin, is descended from Huguenots, French Protestants who found refuge in Germany and elsewhere from Catholic persecution in the 17th century.
(8) Huguenots were persecuted and murdered en masse, and they responded in kind, hunting down Catholic priests like wild animals in the parts of the country that they controlled (one Huguenot captain was said to have worn a necklace of clerics’ ears).
(9) These persons were found exclusively among people of Afrikaner descent, whose origins are mainly derived from Dutch and French-Huguenot stock.
(10) He lodged for a time in London with a family of French Huguenot refugees; a number of the plays, from Love's Labour's Lost to Othello , are drawn from French or Italian sources, quite apart from their author's numerous imaginative grand tours through the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome.
(11) But it is not just me or the millions of British people with Huguenot ancestors in their families.
(12) In the 16th and 17th centuries 50,000 Protestant Huguenots fled Catholic persecution in France – stealing across the Channel in bales of hay or casks of wine.
(13) He brought his own perspective to it: for instance, I’d worked with pearls in a classical way before I met Lee, but then with him we took a pearl and set it into a taxidermied pheasant’s claw, and made an earring.” Joyce was also a keen amateur genealogist, who could trace her family back to the Huguenots who had settled in Spitalfields.
(14) Hostilities continued inside and outside the formal boundaries of open religious war, and only completely ended when the Huguenots were mostly converted, killed, or expelled.
(15) On my father's side, the family is descended from Huguenots from Lyon.
(16) From the Huguenots to the Irish dockworkers to the Windrush generation, immigration over the centuries has made modern Britain the country we love.
(17) On 24 August 1572, Charles IX of France ordered the assassination of prominent Huguenot Protestants who were in Paris for the wedding of their leader, Henry of Navarre, to the king’s own sister.
(18) No.” In contrast, he said, previous waves of immigration by Huguenots, Jews and Ugandan Asians became integrated in society while often maintaining private observance of their faiths and traditions.
(19) Several of his family decided to emigrate to Great Britain with the Huguenot movement.
(20) The influence of the Huguenots upon the practice of dentistry in England has received so little attention that their contribution has been largely overlooked, even though the competence of one particular family, the Hemets, led to royal appointments for three successive generations.