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Jeunesse Doree

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Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; - in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Jeunesse Doree'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​j/jeunesse-doree.html. 1828.
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