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First, a definition: this is a French word that refers to men (although there could certainly be women who did this) who were observers of society. They wandered through various cities in Europe, writing about the people and places they saw, the interesting things people were doing, and what life was like in each city.

A sentence: In the 1700s, a flaneur was seen as someone who was lazy and unwilling to work, but by the 1800s, the word's meaning had changed; it now referred to an artist or a poet or a writer who traveled through Europe, offering his observations about modern life.

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