répandu

Updated: May 18, 2025

Then there was something grandiose in the frank bourgeois style wherewith he expanded his napkin and twisted one end into his waistcoat; it was so manly a renunciation of the fashions which a man so repandu in all circles might be supposed to follow, as if he were both too great and too much in earnest for such frivolities.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Parisians — Complete