Flaneur vs Walker - What's the difference?
flaneur | walker |
One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace.
* 2009 , Barry Estabrook, Gourmet October 2009, "Good Living", page 57
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An idler, a loafer.
: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1 Chapter 8
* 2005 , Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend (page 88)
A walking frame.
(often, in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
A person who walks (or waulks) cloth, that is, who fulls it.
A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
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* 1981 , Spare rib: Volumes 108-119
* 1984 , Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton
* 2007 , (The Walker) (film about a male escort)
As a noun flaneur
is , stroller.As a proper noun walker is
from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.As an interjection walker is
(uk|archaic|slang) expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.flaneur
English
Noun
(en noun)- Portsmouth is a flaneur ’s dream come true, a place that simply begs to be explored randomly and on foot.
Derived terms
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English
Noun
(en noun)- "I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker , and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey."
- We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.
- Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.
- In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker " — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening