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déclassé

[ dey-kla-sey, -klah-; French dey-klah-sey ]

adjective

  1. reduced to or having low or lower status:

    a once-chic restaurant that had become completely déclassé.

  2. reduced or belonging to a lower or low social class, position, or rank.


déclassé

/ deklɑse /

adjective

  1. having lost social standing or status Also (feminine)déclassée
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of déclassé1

1885–1890; < French, past participle of déclasser. See de-, class
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Word History and Origins

Origin of déclassé1

C19: from French déclasser to declass
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Example Sentences

This became déclassé after 1964 or so, and the singer-songwriters of the 1970s made it downright sinful.

Mr. Schleusner, who was small and vulgar and déclassé and really knew something about business.

But “somewhere east of Clinton Street” is déclassé to Buffalo, and the big lake-front town would have nothing of that.

If any line was drawn tightly inside the smart circle, it defined the pseudo-déclassé.

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