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nouveau
[ noo-voh, noo-voh ]
adjective
- newly or recently created, developed, or come to prominence:
The sudden success of the firm created several nouveau millionaires.
nouveau
/ ˈnuːvəʊ /
adjective
- facetious.prenominal having recently become the thing specified
a nouveau hippy
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Origin of nouveau1
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Example Sentences
Lviv is so beautifully preserved, its just-rightly jaded art nouveau buildings give such a well-worn patina of time, that you never know what century you are in.
The scenes, captured in Philip Montgomery’s nouveau noir style, feel as if they’re narrated over a crackling radio broadcast declaring hard truths about the state of the country.
These have the pared-down, Pre-Modernist look of Art Nouveau.
The day we were supposed to shoot this, the Beaujolais Nouveau comes out.
The façade bore all the trendy trappings of the Art Nouveau movement that swept across the European continent.
Horses may be the nouveau eco-friendly delivery van in some parts, but apparently not in big cities.
In nouveau hipster and increasingly expensive Brooklyn, nearly a quarter of people live below the poverty line.
Voyez l'efficace du sacrement: le lendemain matin, il mande M. de Biancourt et moy, et de nouveau il recommence sa harangue.
And Jack come home from a long cruise, with prize-money in his pockets, was as ostentatious as any nouveau riche.
On n'y apprend rien de nouveau, et cependant il attache et intresse.
He really is a typical nouveau riche out of a novel (not one of your novels, darling).
Ma place au Commerce n'a pas eu de suite; je suis de nouveau sur le pav.
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