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jeunesse dorée
zhuh-NES do-RAY
noun
young jet set persons; wealthy, sophisticated young people
1880Anthony TrollopeLife of CiceroAs to this, it is necessary to understand Pompey's peculiar popularity at the moment, both with the Liberals and with the Conservatives. 'Above all, see that you have with you the 'jeunesse dorée.'1915F. A. M. MignetHistory of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814The convention, after the fall of Robespierre; party of the committees; Thermidorian party; their constitution and object—Decay of the democratic party of the committees—Impeachment of Lebon and Carrier—State of Paris—The Jacobins and the Faubourgs declare for the old committees; the jeunesse dorée, and the sections for the Thermidorians—Impeachment of Billaud-Varennes, Collot-d'Herbois, Barrère, and Vadier—Movement of Germinal—Transportation of the accused, and of a few of the Mountain, their partisans—Insurrection of the 1st Prairial—Defeat of the democratic party; disarming of the Faubourgs—The lower class is excluded from the government, deprived of the constitution of '93, and loses its material power.1927Frederick Philip GroveA Search for AmericaWe were surrounded by the 'jeunesse dorée' of a very definite fraction of New York's commercial world.

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stridulate
STRI-juh-layt
verb
the production of sound by the rubbing together of body parts as done by the cricket or cicada
1863Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonThey are the call-notes of the males. In the common field-cricket of Europe the male has been observed to place itself, in the evening, at the entrance of its burrow, and stridulate until a female approaches, when the louder notes are succeeded by a more subdued tone, while the successful musician caresses with his antennae the mate he has won.1871Charles DarwinThe Descent of ManAccording to Westring, Reduvius Personatus also stridulates.1947Frederick Philip GroveConsider Her Ways...all the rest of us would meanwhile move to a point half-way between our army and the hill; there, having halted, we should all stridulate so as at once to alarm the enemy…

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