Clochard

Word CLOCHARD
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Definitions and meanings of "Clochard"

What do we mean by clochard?

A tramp; a vagrant. noun

Same as clocher. noun

A beggar or vagrant, especially in France. noun

A beggar or tramp, especially in France.

A french male homeless person living in the streets, only taking care to get enough money for food & vast quantities of cheap wine from begging & panhandling. Found 'pitoresque' by tourists in Paris, they are often sleeping under Seine bridges. the female is clocharde. A dying breed, equivalent of the tramp or bum Urban Dictionary

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The word "clochard" in example sentences

There was a clochard sitting on a milk crate in the alley behind the hotel. ❋ Daniel Depp (2010)

And the ever-present clown, but this clown resembles a Parisian clochard/street person whose attitude does not evoke sympathy or empathy — just a sense of unease; not unlike the unease that is created by four men with two invisible trampolines separated by an enormous wall that they keep landing on top of, only to be airborne again in one direction or the other. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A clochard was asleep on the far pavement under a bush, his grizzled gray head resting on his extended arm, totally oblivious to the spray steadily heading his way. ❋ Richard C. Morais (2008)

Would we prefer that Emma Bovary didn't swallow the poison and instead became a clochard, cadging francs at the agricultural fair? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? ❋ Sfmike (2007)

Franchement moi avec ma situation merdique, je comprends de plus en plus le nombre grandissant de depressif et de clochard et de clochard depressifs aussi. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

Maigret and the Dosser maigret et le clochard the 88th episode of the maigret saga ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

Jean Renoir's 1932 satire about the paired hypocrisies of bien-pensant humanism and mal-pensant indifference is centered on a satyr: Boudu (Michel Simon), a dog-bearded clochard, who, after losing his shaggy black poodle and meeting with insults and condescension, flings himself into the Seine from Paris's Pont des Arts. Lestingois (Charles Granval), a middle-aged bookseller-a civic-minded liberal intellectual-flies from his shop, rescues Boudu from the currents, and brings him into his home. ❋ Newyorker.com (2010)

Joyce at least responds with paternal solicitude when Beckett is stabbed in the chest by a crazed clochard and intervenes to secure him a private room at the hospital. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mental instability was probably the main reason for this, and he was occasionally spotted by other musicians throughout the ensuing decades living as a clochard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wallpapers / Published: 03-02-2009, 00: 19 clochard posted on 03-02-2009, 00: 39 ❋ Unknown (2009)

He's the same age as I am, and I remember the character who used to busk on the cinema queues on the Left bank, a clochard who blew a wild sound out of a length of garden hose looped round his neck. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bien sur, j'accepte meme si j'habite a plusieurs kilometres et que je n'ai pas de voiture et que je ne suis pas pret du tout (physiquement parlant parce qu'en dehors du boulot je ressemble a un clochard ... j'avais seulement pris ma douche) ❋ Pinku-tk (2009)

They included the sparsely coifed ballard, the squinting, weak-eyed blincard (who could also be 'one who deliberately ignored reality'), the hobbling mendicant limpard or clochard (from French clocher, 'to limp'), the stammering mafflard, and the scallards and scabbards who suffered from some skin disease. ❋ Unknown (1993)

claude le clochard by petite anglaise petite anglaise claude le clochard ❋ Unknown (2004)

The clochard was leaning against the hotel wall, watching them, where he’d been the whole time. ❋ Daniel Depp (2010)

Maigret [and the] clochard ❋ Dirty Danny (2005)

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