nouveau
[noo-voh, noo-voh]
- newly or recently created, developed, or come to prominence: The sudden success of the firm created several nouveau millionaires.
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Origin of nouveau
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Contemporary Examples
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.
The Stylebook would appear to be as uncomfortable with the nouveau as Astor and McAllister were.
A major strain was a distaste for the Midwestern nouveau in particular.
Jacob Bernstein on how the nouveau young socialite has the old guard rolling in their graves.
Historical Examples
It was just such a crowd as this that initiated a “nouveau” once in one of the ateliers.
The Real Latin QuarterF. Berkeley Smith
That is, they are well-born, but they are nouveau as regards money.
The HaloBettina von Hutten
What I didn't tell you is that we're nouveau riche—no class at all.
The Plastic AgePercy Marks
One gained from it that nouveau frisson which it was its aim to produce.
IntentionsOscar Wilde
The editors of Nouveau Trait de Diplomatique are of the same opinion, and doubt the use of linen paper before the year 1300.
nouveau
before a plural noun nouveaux
- (prenominal) facetious, or derogatory having recently become the thing specifieda nouveau hippy
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Word Origin
C20: French, literally: new; on the model of nouveau riche
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