Flâneur (/flæˈnjʊər/; French: ) is a French noun referring to a person, literally meaning 'stroller', 'lounger', 'saunterer', or 'loafer', but with ... moreFlâneur (/flæˈnjʊər/; French: ) is a French noun referring to a person, literally meaning 'stroller', 'lounger', 'saunterer', or 'loafer', but with some nuanced additional meanings. Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym of the noun is boulevardier. Traditionally depicted as male, a flâneur is an ambivalent figure of urban affluence and modernity, representing the ability to wander detached from society with no other purpose than to be an acute observer of industrialized, contemporary life. less
