'Jeunesse dor'ee' definitions:

Definition of 'Jeunesse dor'ee'

From: GCIDE
  • Jeunesse dor'ee \Jeu`nesse" do`r['e]e"\ [F.] Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; -- in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]