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Illustrators ireland: one-word brief

Here’s the latest collection of responses to a One-Word Brief by members of Illustrators Ireland.

The word this time was ‘Arriviste’:

(a-ree-VEEST) noun

1. A person who has recently attained high position or great power without due effort or merit; an upstart.

2. An unscrupulous, vulgar social climber; a bounder.

[French, from arriver, to arrive, from Old French ariver.]

 

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