rastaquouère

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rastaquouère

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Borrowed from French rastaquouère, from South American Spanish rastacuero.

noun rastaquouères · rastacouère

derogatory A social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner. Like the prodigal rastaquouères—those Latin American millionaires who flaunted their wealth in Paris in the hope of gaining entry into the beau monde—writers and intellectuals loved to put on cosmopolitan airs after visiting the French capital—they had left their Hispanic backwaters and could now sw

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@misc{rastaquoue_re_2026,
  title = {rastaquouère},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rastaquou%C3%A8re},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}