nouveau
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of nouveau
1805–15; < French: new; Old French novel < Latin novellus; see novel 2
Example Sentences
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For her first L.A. exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, she combines form and function with benches, couches and tables in a style that is simultaneously Art Nouveau, Art Deco and global.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The results mostly resemble viney Art Nouveau type or wiggly psychedelia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
That’s because her things, such as her Art Nouveau pottery and her black-and-white silhouette artworks, still bring her joy.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
She was both the very famous star of Paris’s Folies Bergère and an icon of the Art Nouveau movement, with an eye toward the possibilities abstraction held for dance.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024
“It’s an Art Nouveau mechanical pencil. I bought it for Mrs. Patterson ages ago. She used to wear it around her neck.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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