add. ·- 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.
add. ·- 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.
Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012