From this unpromising start, the story apparently went, the young parvenu founded a great people.
Later (clearly after the ascent of the parvenu), the sages continue, many forms of death and suffering will descend on the kingdom.
My noble friend who sits below me, and leads me, is a parvenu compared with me and others of us.
Perhaps its sense of noblesse oblige does not quite square with the parvenu erstwhile direct grant schools, which are trying to gain status from the scheme rather than anything else.
These people, though, had their hands full with the "parvenus", supplying them with enough money, a burden that weighed on the poors backs.
Old money contrasts with the "nouveau riche" and "parvenus".
They served the parvenu well.
