Biedermeierei: The warped attempt to behave in a bourgeois, genteel manner, similar to the emerging German middle class of the Biedermeier era, between 1815-1848.
Example: Wir sitzten hier auf deiner Terrasse und essen Spargel und trinken Wein. Dass ist ja eine Biedermeierei!
Translation: We're sitting here on your terrace and eating asparagus and drinking wine. How very Biedermeier!
2 comments:
Since I will never escape the confines of middlebrow, this is a great word for me.
I would love to be sitting on a terrace drinking wine and eating asparagus right now!
I just had frozen yogurt with fruit on it while sitting a faux-hip place in Chelsea.
Biedermeierei? Probably.
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