Usage examples (27)

• The bourgeois is avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate.
• Lewis hastened to the "bourgeoise" in their barge close by, to give the alarm.
• As to the poor orphan, buried in Paris, educated as a "bourgeoise," she will never see her face, save perhaps, as a passing stranger.
• LC: I think we were very overt in making this film about a kind of bourgeoise, middle class, conventional couple so that we weren't doing something "radical" on the surface.