an|cien ré|gime

an|cien ré|gime
an|cien ré|gime «ahn syan ray ZHEEM», French.
1. the social and political structure of France before the French Revolution of 1789.
2. Figurative. the old order of things: »

Modern jazz…was not—and is not—a revolution against an ancien régime that would be better off buried (New Yorker).


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