nouveau pauvre

American  

[noo-voh poh-vr^uh] / nu voʊ ˈpoʊ vrə /

noun

French.

plural

nouveaux pauvres

1. a newly poor person.

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Example Sentences

My lapse in standing was the misfortune of being from the nouveau pauvre side of what passed for an elegant family there in the Pittsburgh of the South.

From Literature

He sees the shabby condition into which imperial palaces and State houses are falling, and talks with the aristocratic or cultured nouveau pauvre carrying his lunch of sausage and black bread to a gloomy apartment at the back of a fourth floor, and he feels the calamity that has fallen upon Austria.

From Project Gutenberg