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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But its “Romanesque churches, Renaissance synagogues, art nouveau apartments, and functionalist office buildings remind us that history shapes the present.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Unfortunately, Tony Dokoupil, the newly installed anchor of CBS Evening News and the face of the company’s nouveau regime-friendly rebrand, was not so lucky.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2026
In February 2022, Ms. Peterson, an author and art collector, was surrounded by a new clientele: the crypto nouveau riche, who made a temporary home of the art market.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2024
A TV adaptation of “The Custom of the Country” had been in the works at Sony in 2014, with Scarlett Johansson being eyed to play the nouveau riche Undine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
Forgetting that he’d ever been way behind the fashion curve, he was appalled, in some priggish, nouveau riche kind of way, that certain passengers appeared in the dining room in slacks and sneakers.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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