‖Jeu′nesse″ do′rée″ (?). 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.